(Community Matters) Yesterday was a terrific and productive day. Always a great day when get to spend most of it with enthusiastic, committed entrepreneurs. Breakfast with my friend/author/speaker, Thom Singer. We were eating at Galaxy Cafe on West Lynn where ran into several other friends including newly elected council member Randi Shade, Paint Texas Blue entrepreneur Alexa Wesner having breakfast with political gurus Mark Harkrider and Wyeth Wiedman. [Regret that we’re unable to be at Alexa’s big do on Saturday. Expect they’ll bust the $1mm mark for D campaigns. We’ll be celebrating a dear friend’s 75th with lots of friends and their family]
Second breakfast with Marion Cimbala who’s running the breast cancer services project for the Entrepreneurs Foundation. Good progress on our current projects (though admittedly never as quick as I’d like): patient mapping, patient navigation, food & nutrition project, bike ride for breast cancer services and a web portal for regional breast cancer organizations.
Lunch over an Austin Community Foundation board meeting. Our investments committee (which I chair) presented on our $105mm investments portfolio, our plans for changes in management and the investment policy and won approval to move a portion of our fixed income assets to Sage Advisory Services. I’ve learned a lot about Sage Advisory over the last couple of months. They’re an outstanding operation; I recommend them for core & core-plus fixed income strategies.
Afternoon Obama campaign related meeting with political entrepreneur, David Kobierowski. He’s one of the three who, with Ian Davis, launched Texans for Obama and the Obama Book Club. Very enthusiastic about raising more money for the campaign, so we met to brainstorm & strategize.
An especially wonderful meeting with arts/social entrepreneur, Ron Berry, founder of Fuse Box Festival, Refraction Arts and a local actor. Steven and I adore Ron and the festival he’s created. It’s already an extraordinary asset for Austin. We wanted him to know we’re here to help grow his festival in any way he’d find helpful.
Finally, dinner with one of our former MBA students and his business partner who traveled down from Dallas so we could review their start-up business plan and offer ideas. Interesting nugget and potentially super opportunities. We felt good about the feedback we were able to offer. Hope they did too.
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