Madrona Open Pitch with Spencer Rascoff — Entrepreneurs and their Children

A while back we hosted the Madrona Open Pitch event with special guest Spencer Rascoff, CEO of Zillow Group, moderated by Shauna Causey and Mike Fridgen with Madrona Venture Labs. Before the event, Spencer, Shauna, Mike and I had a conversation and got on the topic of our children. It was kind of amusing to […]

Predictable Sales Pipeline: The Number is 40 Per Day

Recently, I attended a workshop on Building a Predictable Sales Pipeline by Heinz Marketing. The focus was enablement strategies and tactics to increase your confidence in hitting your number month-after-month. The speaker was Matt Heinz who has over 20 years of marketing and sales experience translating strategy into execution and building a framework that allows […]

Show & Trail with IRONMAN + thinkspace

Do you walk? Do you run? Did you know that IRONMAN, who acquired Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series in 2017, has been a part of the thinkspace community since May? Come join IRONMAN, the thinkspace team, and colleagues throughout the community October 10th to get outside and move! We’ll be reassembling at thinkspace post-run for […]

I’ve analyzed where my time is going and I’m excited to hire an EA!

I’ve been tracking all my time while on a computer this week and it’s broken down to 30.5 hours. 49% of my time is spent on communication and scheduling, 21% on business, 11% on design and composition. I am very hopeful that hiring an executive assistant is going to be one of the best decisions […]

Down to the Final Stretch for thinkspace Lake Union

We’re down to the final stretch before our March 1st Lake Union launch. From the work side we’ve only got five offices left before we hit 100% pre-lease occupancy. We’ve got twelve days or 244 hours left! From the personal side, I’ve run two half marathons in the last two weekends and tonight I went […]

Meditation and Yoga Makes You More Resilient as an Entrepreneur

Just finished a 14 mile run. However the first thing I did before I ran this AM was my Headspace sports meditation. The biggest opponent is always inside and my crazy has a loud voice. I believe that meditation and yoga makes me more resilient as an athlete and entrepreneur. I feel like I’m on […]