Founder Insight 5/3/12
TheFunded.com Open Letter
Posted by Gopal Kamath on 2012-05-03
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Video of the Week
’#Startup HR’ by @jimfranklin - Last week in Silicon Valley we hosted the 2011 Startup Mentor Awards, to celebrate the Founder Institute mentors who go above and beyond to help our companies succeed. The Highest Overall Rating Award went to Jim Franklin - CEO of SendGrid, and Co-Director of the Denver Founder Institute. To honor Jim's award, we've included a video and slidedeck from one of his Denver mentor sessions on Startup HR.
Great Discussions on TheFunded:
Non-Equity Funding with Bad Credit
The Reputation Impact of Failing
Recommended Resources:
The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth
[Both Sides of the Table]
A VC Explains How to Build a Killer Value Proposition
[Michael Skok via VentureBeat]
Upcoming Events:
Gamification Summit
Date/Location:June 19-21, 2012: San Francisco, CA
Description: Gamification is radically changing the way companies do business, driving unprecedented engagement with customers, employees and stakeholders. Find out how your organization and marketing strategy will be transformed through the power of engaging design, and leverage these powerful new techniques to exceed your goals and beat the competition. GSummit is the only event that brings together leading thinkers in the gamification, loyalty and behavioral engineering space. Over three days, you’ll experience hands-on workshops, share best (and worst) practices, see new products & ideas, disseminate data, inspire each other and network to create a more fun & engaging world. Insight readers get a $200 discount.
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