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July 23, 2013

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Tim Chang on Why Gamification Works as a VC

Ivan Kuo12 mins

The Gamification Revolution is the only live gamification webcast featuring Gabe Zichermann and fellow gamification experts every week. Join us and have all of your gamification questions answered by these experts. This past week’s guest was Tim Chang, Gamification VC and Managing Director of the Mayfield Fund.

Be sure to catch our next episode this Thursday, July 25 at 1PM ET/1800 GMT, where we feature Bob Marsh, CEO of LevelEleven as our next guest.

In this week’s episode, Gabe and Tim get down into the nitty gritty on why gaming and gamification have always made sense as a business practice. Learn how an accomplished venture capitalist sees gamification and get a new perspective on the design practice. Also take a look to learn about Tim’s investment sensibilities as it comes to gamification and Tim’s investment case for gamification.

To learn more about gamification in ed and government, follow Tim on Twitter at @timechange.

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The Goldman Sachs NYC Scavenger Hunt for Charity

Alex Landa35 mins

With the simple rules “do not tamper with the clues” and “no private motorized transport”, 20 Goldman Sachs employee teams armed with bubble gum cards, a seating chart for Kevin Bacon’s wedding, a plastic cube, and a three-stanza poem all competed to win the scavenger hunt Midnight Madness.

Originally founded in 1996 by Mat Laibowitz and his Columbia University friend Dan Michaelson, these teams of NYC based financiers and some of their friends took to the streets to decipher clues to win the hunt – all for charity. For almost two days, these contestants live in their own reality solving puzzles that would make even Sherlock Holmes or the most hardened gamer cringe.

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