Start-up Speakeasy

A.C.E. Adventures in Creative EntrepreneurshipEpisode #016Guest: Gary HirschImproviser + Artist   I was first introduced to this week’s guest, Gary Hirsch, on his biggest improv collaborative performance with the 3,000 member audience at Chris Guillebeau’s World Domination Summit in Portland this past summer.    Whoa.  Improv with 3,001 people… pretty impressive + he pulled it off seamlessly.  As a lead member in the international improv company: On Your Feet, Gary uses ‘applied improv’ with small business and even large corporations to positively affect all sorts of blocks such as: Stepping outside your comfort zone Communicating + Collaborating Keeping an audience engaged Idea generators for growth and even products And even building confidence in the face of uncertainty Geeze… that’s quite a list of things I can relate to.  Right?   So, I began to keep tabs on what he was working on… and stumbled upon his collaborative art project called Bot Joy.   A bot is a little robot drawing on the back of domino th