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Two TechCrunch interviews about StartUp Health and our class of Healthcare Transformers within a week. So inspiring and energizing to work with all these amazing entrepreneurs everyday...Here's the video from last week where we explain our mission and what we are building with StartUp Health Academy: Here's the interview with our entire first class of Healthcare Transformers:

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If in Austin today, pop by the Social Health Bootcamp. My panel is at 3:30...

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Come party with StartUp Health and Health 2.0 at SXSW! Register to be put on our VIP Invite list here StartUp Health and Health 2.0 are teaming up to throw a party to celebrate all of the innovators, entrepreneurs, developers, clinicians, investors and angels, thought leaders and people who are dedicating their time, resources, and passion to changing healthcare! Come party with us on Monday

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I officially retired from breakdancing last summer in France after waking up way too sore the day after doing The Windmill on a very hard stone floor during an impromptu dance party with friends. But watching this video of this year's Breakdancing Championships makes me want to get back in shape, lace up my Adidas and bust out the parachute pants for one more battle...

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Wonder what the cultural anthropologists of the future would say about this wall? So many artists contributing to the story by layering onto this spot just up the street from my place.

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A great article in Wired outlines well the power of Feedback Loops, something I've been focusing a lot on in recent years, especially as it relates to incremental behavior change and the Quantified Self: A feedback loop involves four distinct stages. First comes the data: A behavior must be measured, captured, and stored. This is the evidence stage. Second, the information must be relayed to the

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(I published this guest post earlier today in VentureBeat. Click here to see the original article.) One of the most important things you will do as the founder of a start-up is assemble your board. And if you take the proper time and care to assembled a knockout collection of members to fill those chairs, there’s a lot to gain. The question is: How can you attract world-class board members to

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Former MySQL CEO Marten Mikos outlines the Stockdale Paradox and how it applies to entrepreneurs in this amazing video interview. For those who want to survive/thrive: You must believe that one day everything will be perfect but at the same time face the brutal facts. Another comment I'm very in sync with from this interview: I think that offices are so last century...The human being is very

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Reflections on Faucets and Drains and My Big Wish One of my guiding beliefs in life is that in this world there are faucets and there are drains. There are those who fill the world with solutions and dedicate their lives to making contributions that move the ball forward; And there are those who suck the oxygen from the room and try to kick the ball out of bounds. For good or bad, we all

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Just listed to great interview with Werner Herzog (one of my favorite film directors) on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. During the interview about his new documentary "The Cave of Forgotten Dreams", he mentioned this film scene with Fred Astaire dancing with his shadow as being the greatest moment in film history. His comment inspired me to watch the scene in it's entirety on YouTube. The shadow

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Wait until you see the end result!

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Steve Jobs believes that people with PASSION can change the world for the better. I couldn't agree more. In this masterful presentation introducing Apple's Think Different campaign, he posits: Those people who are crazy enough to believe they can change the world are the ones who actually do. He hits the nail on the head with this powerful statement: Values and core values. Those things

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In this one hour interview with Mixergy's founder Andrew Warner, I share my personal experience building start-ups over the past 15 years. Andrew being the curious and passionate interviewer that he is dug in deep with lots of good questions which focused mainly on how to attract great talent and inspiring people to join your movement. Despite me looking like "haircut boy" and being blinded out

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My friends Mark and Aaron are the co-founders of a very cool start-up called Urtak. It makes it easy for anyone to create a yes/no poll they can put on their blog, Tumblr, Facebook, etc. Here's one I just created on Health. It only took me 2 minutes to create and publish. Pretty cool! Their service is already starting to take off, but I think this is going to be an amazing tool for publishers

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I had the great pleasure of working on this opinion piece with Jerry Levin which was published yesterday in published Business Insider and the OrganizedWisdom Blog. Jerry is the former Chairman and CEO of Time Warner, and is the Presiding Director of Moonview Sanctuary and a Board Member and investor in OrganizedWisdom.com. He is a tremendous partner and mentor for me personally and is also one

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Square and Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey shares this insightful lecture, describing his early background and inspirations, the current focuses he keeps as a CEO, and his desire to create memorable experiences and solve problems. Still amazes me that I can pop online, get access to such an amazing talk, and learn so much all for free. And I didn't even have to pay that hefty Stanford tuition:).

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Not sure why a company (I've already forgotten which one) thought it made sense to blow several million dollars on their Super Bowl ad taking a jab at Apple and iPad. First, most people under the age of 40 would likely have never heard of the original ad so the reference didn't work. Second, the new ad was completely inferior. Here's Apple's infamous "1984" Apple Macintosh commercial for those

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This gem of wisdom was brought up at dinner the other night by one of my mentors and it's something that I've been thinking a lot about and also doing my best to put into practice: When you meet someone new, one of the most common questions people ask is "What do you do?" It's an easy question and helpful in kicking off a conversation with someone you don't know much about. But why not try a

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From my experience there are no hard, fast rules to the art of negotiation. And generally speaking the more natural, transparent, and reasonable you are during a negotiation, the more effective you will be. I don't agree 100% with all these, but I think this article includes several useful tips for entrepreneurs or anyone during a negotiation no matter how big or small. 1) Don't use the word "

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For the past few years, I've been mildly obsessed and actively studying, thinking about, ranting about to anyone who will listen, and in fact engaging with the Quantified Self, the art of leveraging personal data to better one's health and well being. The first question most people ask is, what is the Quantified Self anyway? which is why I wanted to share this TED video below featuring Gary Wolf

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