Founder Insight 5/17/12
TheFunded.com Open Letter
Posted by Gopal Kamath on 2012-05-17
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Video of the Week
’Contrarian #Startup Ideas Lead to Big Impacts’ by @rafer - In this talk from the Vietnam Founder Institute, Scott Rafer, CEO of Lumatic and Co-Founder of Mashery explains the importance of riding the “wave” of big markets while having a contrarian view.
Great Discussions on TheFunded:
Negotiating the Board of Directors
Recommended Resources:
How to Raise a $1M Seed Round
[Sunil Rajaraman via TechCrunch]
How Eric Ries Coined "The Pivot" and What Your Business Can Learn From It
[Fast Company]
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 save $200.
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