According to Singh, he has spent the past five years honing his public speaking skills. In 2010 – before he became a partner at 500 Startups alongside Dave McClure, a notoriously vulgar yet entertaining public speaker – he started booking speaking slots once a month just to practice. Since then, he joined and left 500 Startups, launched his own company (Disruption Corporation) and started investing in startups (through Crystal Tech Fund), got acquired by the incubator 1776, and then served as its managing director until July. (Whew.) Now, Singh is back as a free agent, running a weekly email list under his brand Results Junkies. That’s where he initially floated the idea for the course. The five-week course will be delivered by email and includes the following curriculum:
Part 1: What to speak about (and why it doesn’t matter)Part 2: Getting your first talk together (and saving yourself headaches)Part 3: Killing it with your first talkPart 4: Learning how to tweak and iterate your talksPart 5: Booking yourself solid (and how to get organizers to pay for you)
His ability to educate and entertain has landed him at thousand-person events in India and Virginia Tech’s commencement this May. For a taste of Singh’s style, you can watch him discussing Dashboard.io and recent startup trends with us or talking about startup growth in India at Unpluggd, India’s huge startup conference. If you want to get in on the action, make sure to sign up before midnight ET next Monday.
