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Hiring! We're saving democracy. Can your mint-for-groupon startup say that?

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Re: Hiring! We're saving democracy. Can your mint-for-groupon startup say that?

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To anyone else also hiring: This deck made me want to work for Votizen. Instead of listing responsibilities/requirements, it sold the position to me. Hard. And that worked. Perhaps we ought to have marketing do a once-over on all our job descriptions and hiring ads.

Thanks!

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pedantic rant. We're not a democracy. We're a federal republic. Democracy is mob rule.

To clarify, we are not a federal republic or a democracy. ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_%28United_Sta...

Forgive me for accepting something other than Wikipedia as asource of truth: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... I left off the constitutional part.

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Man, I wish I knew someone there. The only reason I want to make a few million dollars is to save the future by fixing this broken system. That and all-you-can-eat-pizza.

Awesome slides, they know how to sell, that's for sure!

Are they actually planning on making money from this somehow? I went through a business plan with some others on an idea just like this and we did figure a way to make money but it was a long shot (not advertising!)

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Man, I wish I knew someone there. The only reason I want to make a few million dollars is to save the future by fixing this broken system. That and all-you-can-eat-pizza. Awesome slides, they know how to sell, that's for sure! Are they actually planning on making money from this somehow? I went through a business plan with some others on an idea just like this and we did figure a way to make money but it was a long s…

I did look at another Votizen slidedeck (sorry don't have the link to hand) and they tested a number of different business models (they are serious about using lean startup methodology) and eventually arrived at campaign management as one that actually generated revenue for them.

Re: Hiring! We're saving democracy. Can your mint-for-groupon startup say that?

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Strangely enough, Groupon was originally a startup named The Point trying to save democracy: http://www.thepoint.com/ . Andrew Mason, Groupon's CEO, was pretty psyched about a campaign to build a giant dome over the city of Chicago: http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/chicago-winter-dome .

Groupon and Votizen have both pivoted quite strongly from how they started out.
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