I have just spent one very rewarding week in Israel. Between the 23rd and the 30th of November I have been part of a group of 9 entrepreneurs. The trip was organized and paid by ourselves. It was not a funded or sponsored travel.

I talkedMost important thing new connections and friends

But we came here to learn from the phenomenal energy of entrepreneurship and innovation in Israel. And we learnt a couple of things and above all, were inspired by Israeli entrepreneurship spirit.

Whatever we have learnt was shared with a community of over 400 entrepreneurs that are part of the #NASF community. During our stay in Israel they followed us on social networks (Twitter #NASF and the blog http://nasf.es).  Once in Navarra we are meeting up to tell them our experience first hand.

About the #NASF community

In November 2010 a group of 15 entrepreneurs from Navarra (a small province of Northern Spain of 500.000 inhabitants) travelled to Silicon Valley. The trip was called #NASF (Navarra-San Francisco). They had met on Twitter. Behind #NASF there was not the Chamber of Commerce, not a company, organization or institution. Exclusively entrepreneurs that wanted to learn first hand what entrepreneurship meant in San Francisco. They said no to public and private subventions.

The #NASF guys were so active on social networks that over 400 entrepreneurs joined their community. #NASF (http://nasf.es) became a community of people that  promote entrepreneurship and creative attitudes that issue from civil action.

#NASF people ACT a lot and DEBATE very little. Whoever proposes any new initiative to the community, has to lead it themselves. If you are a #NASF you may not say “Why don’t we do this?”, you just say “I am doing this, will you join me?”.

They meet up quite often and carry out several activities connected with entrepreneurship in their region. But #NASF is not an association. #NASF people define their movement as an attitude, a SPIRIT (their TWITTER id is @EspirituNASF “NASF SPIRIT”. There are only a few rules  they follow:

1)    It is about creativity and entrepreneurship

2)    People act always as individuals, not as organizations. Behind #NASF there is not any company, organization or institution.

3)    Just Lead!, don’t say “shall we do?”

4)    They don’t accept any kind of public money or private donations or sponsors.

After several months of hard work and fun, we are about to release Pulitzer, PULITZER[1]. Play and Learn English,  a Facebook-based social game that helps you learn English the fun way.  There is also a web based version of the game for those that will not use FB.

In the game, Joe Pulitzer is a journalist working for a news agency called Amazing News. Pulitzer has to travel around the world to obtain as much information as possible to publish his articles. The protagonist needs to complete successfully grammar exercises, maintain several dialogues and solve questions and enigmas in order to travel to the next city or stage.

Have a look at this video below to see the game in action. But let’s Show, don’t tell:

The first episode of Pulitzer (entitled The mysterious secret of Hugh Grand) is being released in November 2011. This episode requires 6 hours of playing and learning. It will be the first of a total of 18.

¿What do you think? We want to sell it all over the World, ¿would you give us a hand?

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[1] The name of the game is a homage to Joseph Pulitzer (April 10, 1847 -October 29, 1911) also known as Joe. J. Pulitzer is best known for the journalism prizes that bear his name. He was an American editor, born in Mako (Hungary), known for his fierce competition with William Randolph Hearst.