Echelon 2010 Deadline for Demo and Launching March 31st

The Echelon 2010 event in Singapore is coming up on June 1-2. It looks like several HK startups are planning on going to this event. If your company is interested in getting together with the Asia-wide startup community, meeting up with Geeks on a Plane, or want a local event to launch or demo your lastest cool product, you should consider coming. 

You can apply to demo or launch here (deadline March 31st):

 

If you just want to attend the conference, but not demo or launch, you can purchase tickets here: 

Echelon 2010 Tickets

 

How To Make Facebook, FedEx, And Amazon More Fun

Ever since Foursquare burst onto the scene with its clever badges and simplified “mayoral” achievements, people have been going gaga for game mechanics (and Gaga videos, circumstantially). Its competitors and allies, from Gowalla and Yelp to Miso, Hot Potato and my own startup, beamME, have been evangelizing the value of points, badges, levels, challenges, leaderboards and achievements as an easy and powerful way to get consumers to engage with a product or service.

Bootstrapping a Lean Startup – Ash Maurya

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Click on over to another great post from Ash Maurya. If you haven’t read any of the others, stay and peruse the rest of the blog. Just well prepared and useful info for anyone doing a startup.