James Taylor, the game designer (not musician), has just launched his latest game, Special Committee, on Kickstarter. Special Committee is a tabletop game of political maneuvering, pushing agendas, and overturning the dominant party to become the most powerful player inside the Beltway.
James is an amazing designer. I had the pleasure working with him in the past on the Yumby games, and I love his creativity and dedication to the craft. Check it out for yourself!
Review: Startup founders, followers and freaks, take a break from your work, mindless tech blogs, and fruitless pitch events, and bury your head in something sweet and intoxicating. Every time I read Oscar Wilde, it’s like taking happy pills.
Just finished reading “The Importance of Being Earnest,” and I assure you that each utterance is a delicious mouthful of wit, whimsey and wonder–a marvelous poke at what makes us human. I never wanted it to end!
Liz Skalla joined Founders Space as a mentor. Liz enjoys building and growing brands – brands with a purpose that help people and/or the world. Liz has fortune 50 experience, is a past AMA board member and has a masters degree in Marketing Strategy and Management. She has started companies from the ground up, raised venture capital, mentored, advised, held board seats, build boards, and sold her first startup to a competitor. She is currently consulting growing companies and is part of the GIVN Goods team that makes it easy for consumers to make an impact on the world while buying everyday products.
Liz’s Linkedin profile here.
The Extreme Tech Challenge is the world’s largest startup competition with Sir Richard Branson as their anchor judge and the world’s largest consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, CES, as a strategic partner for the semi-finals. Great value lies in their community with exposure to thousands of startups around the world and some of the most successful technology luminaries.
Submission Deadline: October 15, 2016
Top 25 Announced: November 1, 2016
When: Friday, Sept. 30 at 6:30pm PT
Where: Fremont, CA
Register on https://www.meetup.com/Startup-Best-Practices/events/234309131/
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2016 from 8:30 AM to 11:00 AM (PDT)
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Hey founders…it’s time to shift your thinking! Startup Game Changers will help you take your startup to the next level with actionable tips from insiders within the Bay Area startup ecosystem.
Umair Ehsan is a Founders Space graduate. Here’s the story of how he dropped out of university to pursue his dream of intelligently automating the world.
Howard Lim is a mentor at Founders Space. As founder of HOW Creative, Howard has been building business and brands for nearly three decades. His passion is helping organizations transform products and services into rich brand experiences that motivate and inspire consumers achieve their aspirations.
Howard has shepherded the brands of emerging, leading and Fortune 100 companies such as Apple, Disney, DreamWorks, Honda, Xerox, Namco, HBO, Mattel, Oracle adding billions of dollars to clients’ profits, brand value and equity.
A veteran whole-brain thinker, Howard is dedicated to innovation and creating aesthetic assets that become valuable financial assets. He is a frequent speaker, judge and panelist at invention, product and business conferences, and through his seminars and workshops, has taught more than 75,000 entrepreneurs how to build differentiated brands that connect with customers intellectually and emotionally, proving that an Authentic Brand® accelerates growth, customers, profit and value for every company, large or small.
Umesh was introduced to Founders Space and has, ever since, enjoyed mentoring startups from an early stage. With experiences in a wide range of industries, he helps provide unique market perspectives as well as technology insights. He enjoys working with people.
With a masters in Robotics and Automation, and a long career in Research & Development, he started looking for opportunities to help and grow small companies. Since then, he has helped several startups in the Bay Area quickly grow into large organizations, breaking down barriers and identifying new business opportunities. He enjoys pushing the envelope in unique ways.
He has worked at consulting firms (Keane Inc), fortune 500 corporations (GE, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Pacific Bell) and overseas companies like Namco Games, SRA America, Toyota Research and Pioneer Electronics. He helped create strategic positions for Pioneer in the Connected Vehicles markets and has helped the company understand opportunities and complexities of IoT and Connected Lifestyles. He led the USDOT initiative for Smart Transportation and Smart Cities and was a lead member of the Connected Car Consortium.
Great startups are often based on an idea that most people refuse to believe is possible at the time it appears. Take these examples:
Twitch: Millions of people will tune in to watch other people play video games online.
SpaceX: It’s possible for a founding team without significant space or rocket experience to build a company that makes manned space flights better than NASA or any other government on the planet.
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