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Why Whuffie is Wiser: presentation from IgniteSF

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Why you shouldn't even think of raising Venture Capital until you have raised Social Capital ...

Why you shouldn't even think of raising Venture Capital until you have raised Social Capital

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Why Whuffie is Wiser: presentation from IgniteSF Presentation Transcript

don’t raise venture capital, raise why whufﬁe is wiser social capital

dude.

that sucks.

raise social capital (whufﬁe) instead.

it doesn’t suck as bad

you don’t have to give up ﬁnancial chunks of your company

you get to make new friends

it takes more time than money

raise your whufﬁe and you will raise your negotiating power

the art of raising whufﬁe.

be a better listener

be part of the community you serve

embrace the chaos

build crazy, awesome stuff

be open and transparent

work with other startups towards a better user experience

dedicate time and energy to causes you are passionate about

have lots of fun

raising venture capital is totally not that much fun

let the VCs come to you end.

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Tara Hunt Community Energy Organizer tara@citizenagency.com 415.694.1951 skype: tarahunt747 www.citizenagency.com www.horsepigcow.com

Sarah Green, Shopper at BuynShopping.com Great Presentation!
Just add to my favourited.

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Tara Hunt, Director, Digital & Content at Rogue Strategies All of these comments belong to the slides...unfortunately, the way I put them in, they turn up backwards...

5 years ago

Tara Hunt, Director, Digital & Content at Rogue Strategies you can have the VCs come to you. Maybe you can help them raise social capital and have fun, then, too. Thanks.

5 years ago

Tara Hunt, Director, Digital & Content at Rogue Strategies and raising VC can be total stress. So, have fun while you can now, make friends, make people happy, embrace the chaos, build cool stuff, sing kumbaya, reap the benefits of raising social capital for as long as you possibly can and then and ONLY THEN

5 years ago

Tara Hunt, Director, Digital & Content at Rogue Strategies This is most important. If you aren’t having fun, I have no idea why you are doing this. The more fun you have, the more people you will attract to what you are doing. Your goal should be to maximize the fun and minimize the stress.

5 years ago

Tara Hunt, Director, Digital & Content at Rogue Strategies There are probably a whole bunch of things you feel incredibly passionate about. Why not work on those causes while you work on your startup. Why not integrate them INTO your startup? Do well by doing good isn’t just something for Craigslist an Kiva...

5 years ago

Tara Hunt, Director, Digital & Content at Rogue Strategies Making friends with your former ‘enemies’ shows that you are a big person. It also makes you even cooler because you get to offer more freedom to your friends who will totally reward you. Friends don’t lock friends in.

5 years ago

Tara Hunt, Director, Digital & Content at Rogue Strategies Friends don’t keep secrets...they are open and trust one another. They talk openly about where they are going and what they need to get there. I would say that Matt Mullenweg’s open development of Wordpress gave him an advantage even in a competitive market.

5 years ago

Tara Hunt, Director, Digital & Content at Rogue Strategies People who make remarkable products and services gain huge whuffie points. All that stuff before about listening and being part of the community and embracing the chaos? Apple? Um, no. But dammit, they win all of the whuffie back in the stuff they build.

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Tara Hunt, Director, Digital & Content at Rogue Strategies Embrace the chaos. Small, simple, agile steps are much better.The startup world is incredibly uncertain and communities are even MORE uncertain. As you will already be part of the community, you’ll also need to bend with it.

5 years ago