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Blog Home > A 36 Hour Day of 9 Year Old Dinosaur Experts, 12 Year Old Presidents, Two Venture Meetings, and Donnie Deutsch Interview

May 30, 2007


A 36 Hour Day of 9 Year Old Dinosaur Experts, 12 Year Old Presidents, Two Venture Meetings, and Donnie Deutsch Interview

I woke up at 1pm on Monday (Memorial Day) and haven't slept since except for an 80 minute "nap" last night between 3:40am and 5am.

Today was passion-chock-filled day of great experiences. I got on the 6:40am flight from RDU to JFK this morning, grabbed a cab to Pequot Ventures on East 53rd to meet with Amish Jani and their partner team at 10:00. At 11:30am I jumped in a waiting car that took me to the CNBC headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ to the Big Idea with Donny Deutsche show.

They weren't 100% sure on the time but it looks like our segment will probably air at 10pm ET Wednesday May 30 (tonight) on CNBC.

The show was about 'whiz kids'--and man I sure met some today. (Donny actually filmed two shows today and changed shirts in between to make it look like a new "day").

Check out the five people Donny interviewed (the coolest thing was I got to meet all these people):

- 9 year old Paleontologist and Dinosaur Expert Reiss who has been on Oprah and the Jay Leno show. The kid is the cutest thing ever and does a tremendous Velociraptor impersonation during the show. And he shows off a caste of a T-rex tooth. At one point he said to Donny, "And now the next topic will be" and just went into it. Talk about a kid who takes charge. Reiss is now working on getting his 67-page book on Dinosaurs published.

- 11 year old actor and movie producer Dominic Scott Kay, who has played the young Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Tom Cruise's son in Minority Report, and was the voice of Wilbur the Pig in Charlotte's Web.

- 12 year old Noah McCullough, who has also been on the Tonight Show and will be running for President in 2032 (I told him I wanted to be his VP). Noah is an ardent Republican in name he says, yet he is sensible centrist nonetheless, and props to him for being able to explain his positions intelligently to Donny who told him he was on the wrong show to be a Republican :-). You've gotta hear this kid's answer to Donny's hardball question on "What is your view on the war in Iraq and George Bush's handling of it?." Noah hands out red white and blue wristbands saying Noah McCullough 2032. He has written a book on Presidential Trivia and is working on his second about the children of President's. Did you know that John Quincy Adams swam nude in the Potomac every morning?

- 22 year old Tyler Dikman, CEO of Cooltronics. Tyler is an friend of mine from about five years ago in Tampa that I had no idea would be on the show. He's doing well with 18 employees and over $3 million in annual sales providing computer consulting and web design services in Tampa, D.C., and Silicon Valley.

- And finally, 22 year old Ryan Allis (ok I was feeling sort of old by this point). Donny asked about how I got started, my book, the reason for being an entrepreneur, three tips I have for entrepreneurs, and what we're doing with iContact. Man, a 7 minute interview goes lighting fast when you're actually in the moment. Tyler got a picture of Donny and I that I'll post tomorrow. We also grabbed one with Mad Money's Jim Cramer when we saw him in the hallway.

So after the taping, still embarrassingly in show makeup, I went over to Larchmont, NY for a 4:30pm meeting with Mitchell Green and Jeremy Levine of Bessemer Venture Partners, one of the nation's first venture firms founded in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie's business partner Henry Phipps and backers of Yelp, Wikia, Flock, LinkedIn, and Register.com. Finally, I went to LaGuardia for the 8:45pm flight back home. I'm going to go crash, for at least 8 hours, anyway.

Posted by ryanallis at May 30, 2007 12:42 AM

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Exciting stuff, Thanks for sharing it with us. Look forward to catching the segment at 10 p.m. tonight!

Posted by C. .

sweet, if possible, try to post it on youtube.

Posted by David.

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