Founder Insight 6/14/12
TheFunded.com Open Letter
Posted by Gopal Kamath on 2012-06-14
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Video of the Week
’How to Echo and Amplify your #Startup Story’ by Jeff Dachis - In this talk from the Silicon Valley Founder Institute, Jeffrey discusses how to use the media and your network to echo and amplify your startup's story at every stage.
Great Discussions on TheFunded:
VC Intros from Fellow Entrepreneurs
Recommended Resources:
8 Angels Investors that Entrepreneurs Should Avoid
[Marty Zwilling via RockThePost]
What it’s Like to be the CEO: Revelations and Reflections
[Paul DeJoe via OnStartups]
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.
Structure Conference
Date/Location:June 20-21, 2012: San Francisco, CA
Description: GigaOM presents the 5th Annual Structure Conference, as we bring together the leaders innovating, shaping and defining the ongoing cloud computing evolution. The shift to the cloud isn't just a change the way IT is organized and delivered, but is also the impetus for a new way of building chips, servers, networking and the other building blocks of the computing industry. The cloud allows us to think and do things never before possible. Find out how the cloud is affecting the way you work and do business around the world. TheFunded readers receive a 20% discount.
11th Founder Showcase
Date/Location:July 25, 2012: San Francisco, CA
Description: The Founder Showcase is a quarterly startup pitch and networking event that gathers over 300 top technology CEOs, investors, and seed-stage companies in Silicon Valley to hear talks from leading CEOs, and help launch a promising startup to greatness. The 11th Founder Showcase is scheduled for Wednesday, July 25th at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus. Guests will be treated to an entertaining Pitch Competition featuring 8 promising seed-stage companies, as well as talks by Aaron Levie, Co-Founder & CEO of Box, and others. Reduced-Price tickets are available until Friday, June 15th.
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