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    Spinosa + TechStars + Reality TV + Tumblr = this mass-email-turned-blog-post

    Dear <you>,


    Between canadian pharmacies and facebook, you receive so much SPAM everyday I figured another piece from your old pal Spinosa wouldn’t clog the inbox…


    In 2008 I started bootstrapping HomeField, then raised an angel round in 2010.  We got into TechStars NYC inaugural class this past winter, started Shelby.tv during that program, then raised a $1.5MM seed round for Shelby earlier this summer.


    I’m writing because I thought you would enjoy seeing a) the process of starting a company through the lens of Reality TV and/or b) me probably make an ass of myself on national TV as you suspected I eventually would.  The show premiers September 13th at 9pm EST on Bloomberg TV (bloomberg flavored reality tv trailer? right here!).

    So that’s why I’ve been too busy to write ;-]

    Cheers,

    p.s. I do hope you’re doing well.  The BCC list is only ~20, if that makes you feel any better.
    p.p.s. Yes, I was so proud of my lame mass email that I turned it into a blog post.  The Internet said it would be cool.

    $ shelby.tv is hiring to put a dent in the universe
    $ hackday.tv
    $ dan spinosa // founder, cto // danspinosa.com // @spinosa

     

    tags:  techstars  tv  entrepreneur 

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    It’s a known risk… But the odds against it are pretty good, especially when compared to the rewards of being an astronaut, so they’re willing to take the chance. In fact, they FIGHT for it… as would a lot of us. But getting the public to buy this is a lot tougher, especially a public that expects every risk in their lives to be mitigatable to zero. It will be interesting to see if NASA tries to take on this challenge, explaining to the public that doing bold things isn’t about engineering risk to zero. Shit happens, and if we just want to restrict ourselves to things where shit can’t happen… we’re not going to do anything very interesting.
    — 

    Dan Canin, a Lockheed test pilot on the Columbia space shuttle accident (via reecepacheco)

    I have a significant conscious desire for risk.  Maybe it has to do with the (usually) greater reward I can see, my environment growing up, or what I’ve read and learned along the way.  I’m sure that’s part of it, but I have a feeling it’s more innate.  For me: the adrenaline / dopamine rush; behavior that evolved over millions of years to keep man alive, further his accomplishments and give meaning to his life.

    p.s. I’m excited to be getting a copy of Atlas Shrugged back from Reece so I can start reading it again.

     

    tags:  entrepreneur 

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