March 05, 2007

Five Questions

Thanks to Ken Schafer and Arieh Singer over at One Degree the Indoor Playground has got some more exposure. I quite liked their format of five questions and I got a little candid with my answers as I got comfortable. This time around I listed a few of the folks who really helped get the word out there and some of the folks who are helping us shape what this whole thing is behind the scenes...

Mar 5, 2007 3:10:31 PM | Innovation

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Teenagers I was a youthworker for about 12 years of my life and still wonder if I still am today. I think is spend as much time supporting youth workers and youth as I do in my real work (apparently paid capacity). A good friend of mine Mark Oestreicher posted about an LA times article this evening about teens. This article is heavily influenced by Howe and Stauss who have written some legendary books on generational behavior. This article is a challenge to me: "Selfish kids would seem unlikely to get along with their parents. Yet several surveys indicate that today's teenagers are very close to their moms and dads. Record numbers claim they "share their parents values" or "have no problem with any family member." Increasingly they say they want to live near their parents later in life — a reassuring prospect if Social Security collapses under the demographic weight of the boomers." I have such a beef with this sort of statistic as it does little justice to the reality that each of us live within our parents value set and also live to ensure their unmet dreams are still fulfilled. Beyond my own opinions, i think that this...
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Silver Lining The past 7 days has been eventful when it comes to Indoor Playground. As many of you have been tracking with, we got covered in Business Week, ABC Global News, and One Degree here in Toronto. In addition I had an interview with the National Post yesterday which I believe will be in print on Monday. It has been a wild journey trying to experiment and discover our way since we opened just over a month ago. It cost quite a lot in the renovations even though we bootstrapped as much as possible to keep the prices affordable to the community. We have been hoping for a few people to partner with us and share this risk. Today that hope became a reality as Carissa Reiniger from Silver lining signed up as our first strategic partner who will share the cost and risk of making this venture successful. I met Carissa several months ago and have been inspired by her vision and commitment to making the new entrepreneur and small business successful. I have to admit that she has about twice as much energy as I do and seems to channel it in the right direction. She has one of...

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