{"id":550,"date":"2008-10-26T20:24:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T00:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?page_id=550"},"modified":"2016-05-01T07:08:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T19:08:58","slug":"ben-young","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blog.local\/ben-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated 25\/10\/14.<\/p>\n<p>I am a kiwi entrepreneur living in New York building <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giveitanudge.com\">Nudge<\/a>, a spin out product from the digital agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngshand.com\">Young &amp; Shand<\/a>, Duncan and I started in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an avid traveller; getting into whiskey, big reader of books (and listener of podcasts), this year I&#8217;m focused on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@bwagy\/my-year-of-health-and-wellbeing-b162fac5b245\" target=\"_blank\">health &amp; well-being<\/a>, angel investor in NZ &amp; US companies.<\/p>\n<p>In the past projects I&#8217;ve been involved in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mentor at LightningLab (the NZ YCombinator)<\/li>\n<li>Judge &amp; mentor at StartupWeekend in NZ<\/li>\n<li>Co-founder of Auckland Tech Startups meetup, with Glenn McGlinn<\/li>\n<li>Held the The Best Ideas are Free segment on KiwiFM with Glenn Williams for over\u00a0102 shows.<\/li>\n<li>This Week in Digital Marketing Podcast (way back)<\/li>\n<li>Published The Best Ideas are Free book<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0Pay What You Want Marketing Advice experiment.<\/li>\n<li>Playing with video interviews, Tom Peters, Michael Gerber &amp; Jack Daly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My story is one of perseverance, a strong sense of impatience whilst being patient, and getting on with it &#8211; nothing frustrates me more than lack of movement or inefficiency.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also an avid supporter of Kiva, which supports entrepreneurs in developing countries through micro-finance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favourite Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Being a huge fan of quotes to inspire others his favourite are:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cperseverance is genius\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cbe so good they can&#8217;t ignore you\u201d -Steve Martin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cstay hungry, stay foolish\u201d -Steve Jobs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated 25\/10\/14. I am a kiwi entrepreneur living in New York building Nudge, a spin out product from the digital agency Young &amp; Shand, Duncan and I started in New Zealand. I&#8217;m an avid traveller; getting into whiskey, big reader of books (and listener of podcasts), this year I&#8217;m focused on\u00a0health &amp; well-being, angel investor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/550"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5349,"href":"http:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/550\/revisions\/5349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}