kiteboarding article from mercury news

clints · Post by **clints** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:05 am

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9657267?source=rss

Interesting and kinda funny. Now everyone might think that most of us kiters are VCs :).

-clint

windhorny · Post by **windhorny** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:55 am

Wait, I thought Jeff was the mayor of 3rd,Sherman, and Crissy? I'm confused.

jono · Post by **jono** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:58 am

Yuri: Look at who they quoted for that one:
"Bill has been known as the mayor of Third Avenue for quite some time," *colleague* Saar Gur said.

VCs need to keep a low pro normally -- Bill has found another angle. Don't talk about being a VC, talk about being a kiter who happens to be a VC.

Bill is doing a PR push for some reason (trying to build interest in that retreat in Hawaii?). It's cool and all, but these are not accidental articles, they are a planned PR push -- just wanted to let people not familiar with PR understand that when different articles all talk about the same dude and all his graces it's not an accident, it's the dude utilizing PR resources to get articles for some purpose. Maybe it's that Bill knows all the new good Web 2.0 stuff comes from the younger crowd and he wants a "cool guy" image when they come to him for money.

At least we know a friendly kiter who can drop some bills next time we need to raise funds right? ;)

litewave125 · Post by **litewave125** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:36 pm

Hey guys .. what's VC mean ?

Loscocco · Post by **Loscocco** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:51 pm

Very Cool
8)

jk Venture Capitalist

sloughslut · Post by **sloughslut** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 4:53 pm

viet-cong.

elli · Post by **elli** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:11 pm

Tai, 45, says the sport appeals to Silicon Valley because its requirements tap the qualities of the inner geek: energy, passion, self-reliance, perseverance, fearlessness and calculated risk-taking.

I read it I wanted to be a geek too. So cool, fearlessness, energy, kiteboarders rock!
So I went to "the source" to learn more about my new title, the wiki says:

Julie Smith defined a geek as "a bright young man turned inward, poorly socialized, who felt so little kinship with his own planet that he routinely traveled to the ones invented by his favorite authors, who thought of that secret, dreamy place his computer took him to as cyberspace—somewhere exciting, a place more real than his own life, a land he could conquer, not a drab teenager's room in his parents' house

Poorly socialized? Felt so little kinship with his own planet? I don’t think I want to be a geek anymore.

I see a big rip between PR and Academia. Where is the truth? Where?

rambo · Post by **rambo** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:22 pm

Kite surfing is officially sold out now

KirkTalon · Post by **KirkTalon** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:49 pm

Where can I get a pocket protector that will fit my Mystic Harness???

ramsey · Post by **ramsey** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:25 am

I think this article is BS. I regularly jump over 70ft..... :^o

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