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Lose weight and get strong without leaving your house

My family and I are in the process of moving to a new home, and we are thinking through how to design it to promote active living for us and our children.  Both at work and at home, we’re trying to make it as easy and natural as possible for people to raise their fitness...

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The real reasons adults love to give kids sugar

The world rains sugar on my children. The bus driver offers my child bubble gum. The teachers offer a cupcake for every birthday party. The school vending machine is full of junk food; so is the one at the Y. At camp, the counselors offer candy and a freeze pop at the end of the...

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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...

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New VC/Tech Meetup for Parents of Pre-Teen Kids

ff Venture Capital is launching a periodic Meetup for people who work in the innovation community and who are parents of pre-teen children. Our Venture Partner Michael Yavonditte (father of a 2-year-old) and I (girls ages 6, almost 4, and 8 months) are leading this. We envision organizing activities that our kids, partners, and we...

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Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy

If you’re having trouble understanding why and how it’s become normative for the broadband generation (12-24) to document their entire lives online, I recommend Emily Nussbaum‘s Say Everything in New York magazine. My favorite section is from Clay Shirky of NYU, who has an amazing gift for metaphor: Shirky describes this generational shift in terms...

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Unwitting Exposure: Does Posting Personal Information Online Mean Giving up Privacy?

“People who access the Internet for what have become routine functions — sending emails, writing blogs, and posting photos and information about themselves on social networking sites — do not realize how much of their personal privacy they put at risk, according to Wharton faculty and legal experts. Nor, they add, have the courts fully...

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