Last month I did an on-stage interview with Peter Crysdale of Startup Grind. You can read a summary at AlleyWatch. For fun, I did an on-stage vertical pushup at the end of the interview (skip to 44:00)....
[Continue Reading]SXSW charity push-up competition, Sunday 1-2pm, Austin TX
Michael Gold challenged Jeff Pulver and me to a pushup contest for charity on stage at SXSW. This rapidly escalated to a full-fledged Indiegogo campaign. So: Come challenge Ryan Armbrust, me, and some other team members Sunday 1-2pm at the ff MASSIVE pavilion, Empire Control Room & Garage (606 E 7th St, Austin, TX) Sunday,...
[Continue Reading]Meet people at SXSW … while working out and losing weight
Can you go to SXSW and stay in shape? South by Southwest (SXSW) is famous for a jam-packed schedule, infinite free food & drink, minimal sleep, and radical overstimulation. It’s not well known as a place to stay in shape. So before attending for my first time (finally!), I had to find a solution to keep my...
[Continue Reading]Bicycle Parkour
I get a lot of personal training ideas from videos, but Danny MacAskill’s Imaginate (below) is useless for that purpose. Just training to do some of the tricks in this video will almost certainly kill you. Danny takes BMX biking to the next level and does what I would call bike parkour. This video is...
[Continue Reading]How to Raise Kids to be Entrepreneurs (Who Don’t Take Orders)
I spoke at Womensphere a few weeks ago, a conference centered around empowering women and girls. I discussed my family’s approach to raising entrepreneurial kids, and some parallels to our approach to supporting our portfolio entrepreneurs. One of the issues I talked about was our track record of investing in women-founded companies. I emphasize that...
[Continue Reading]How to keep the people attending your event alive
Do you organize events? Do you like your attendees alive? Event organizers like their attendees to be energetic, enthusiastic, and preferably, alive. Joe Reilly organized 50 events a year while serving as President of the Family Office Association. He said, “Conferences are the unnatural situation par excellence, almost like a casino. You are in a recirculated-air,...
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