This week’s highlights: Fat startups, monogamy in a swipe world, and a $600 dollar dinner worth every penny.

Let’s Welcome Lord Stanley’s Cup to Nashville

The Nashville Predators wrapped up the Western Conference Championship – and are on to face an exhausted Pittsburgh Penguin team (who finally closed down their series in a 7 game nail-biter that went to double overtime last night).  The Preds are getting some solid national press in Philly (The epicenter of the hockey world is now … Nashville?) and New York (From Hockey 101 to a Ph.D. in Nashville)

• Original Content This Week – The Emerging Wealthy Part 2 — Handling the Early Liquidity Event.   In our last discussion of the Emerging Wealthy — we focused on what we call Stage 1 of Wealth accumulation – when income exceeds living expenses.  Yet many millennial entrepreneurs many find themselves with unexpected liquidity following the closing of a large deal or sale of the company. How to handle this new wealth requires serious consideration.

Food for Thought:

1. NYT – At His Own Wake, Celebrating Life and the Gift of Death.  Tormented by an incurable disease, John Shields knew that dying openly and without fear could be his legacy, if his doctor, friends and family helped him.
2. Fortune – General Mills Loses the Culture Wars  The company’s Yoplait yogurt brand has foundered, falling behind Chobani—that’s only one problem for the packaged food giant. Can a new CEO calm the waters?
3. NYT – Wanting Monogamy as 1,946 Men Await My Swipe
4. Guardian – Bulletproof Coffee’s Dave Asprey: why healthy eating and exercise aren’t enough.  The tech entrepreneur was once overweight and unfocused. Now his ‘brain‑boosting’ diet has made him the toast of Silicon Valley
5. SBB – The Total Solar Eclipse is Coming: Here’s What You Need to Know – Credit MW – Mark your calendars and make your way to Nashville this August 21, because this year, the United States is lucky enough to experience a total solar eclipse. Why head to Nashville? Because Nashville is the largest city in the world to experience this eclipse

Business/Economics:

1. NYT – The Rise of the Fat Start-Up
2. Coveteur – Why Herschel Was Always Going to be a Runaway Success  Herschel, a bag and travel accessories brand that was launched just seven years ago in Vancouver (where the company is still based), has managed to do what every other fashion and retail company dreams of: They’ve become a no-holds-barred, runaway success.
3. Bloomberg – The Barbarians Are at Etsy’s Hand-Hewn, Responsibly Sourced Gates.  The ur-Brooklyn online craft marketplace is under pressure to start acting more like a conventional, shareholder-focused company.
4. WSJ – Bond Buyers Forgive and Forget, Flock Back to Online Lenders’ Debt.  Online lenders have scrambled to make their credits more attractive to investors by overhauling their lending criteria and shortening loan terms.
5. CIO – Redefining the Role of Hedge Funds.  Some of the funds are changing their strategic approach or at least becoming slightly more transparent.

Culture/Tech/Science:

1. TheStar – At $600 each, this meal was worth every cent.  Noma’s Mexican pop-up is one in a string from world famous chef René Redzepi.
2. Hoopshype – An inside look at the stressful, chaotic lives of NBA agents
3. LinkedIn – The Three Qualities of People I Most Enjoy Working With – Credit HE
4. Wired – CRISPR kills HIV and eats Zika ‘like Pac-man’. Its next target? Cancer.  Researchers paired proteins with a process that amplifies RNA which could be used to detect cancer cells.
5. Forbes – Wall Street’s Robocop: How Digital Reasoning Cracked The Code On Trader Talk