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Boy, the VCs have really discovered/invented the term gamification. All it took was for Foursquare to do well giving out badges and StackOverflow to succeed giving programmers brownie points for good answers… Now untold millions are being “invested” in “gamification” startups. It will “save” education. In fact, it just might save the world! Yippeee!
Gamification of Life (Jul '11) (Photo credit: VFS Digital Design)
Well why don’t we “save” Venture Capital too? I propose to take some of my fellow programmers, we’ll create a “minimally viable product” to “gamify” VCs. Here’s how it works:
VCs sign up at our site. They “invest” dollars. Every $10K is worth a gold star. VCs “compete” against each other for the most gold stars. The “winner” at the end of each year gets a PLATINUM STAR! And we sell our “incubator” to one of the big boys for billions. Win/Win/Win.
Think they’ll buy it?
Until then, I’ll “curb” my enthusiasm that “Gamification just might save X”.
We are building what your are describing… but it get a bit complicated with SEC… I have a work around. I have 15 yrs beta testing games and am a gamer at heart. Love to have you on our dev team… we are building such an architecture
Check out my talks on foundups.tv for the last 2 years… 
Hey Joe, not a bad idea, lol. I saw a presentation online some time ago (wish I had the link). The gist of it was that everything will be tracked and “gamified” in the future… you’ll even get points for brushing your teeth and the toothpaste company will offer badges or rewards or something. Funny. Every time the presenter said “you’ll get a point”, he played the original Super Mario Bros coin sound. It was pretty good and spooky at the same time.
I like it. Gamify the VC’s
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