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Geekstack taps into the real world of successful promotion

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You may remember a while back that I talked about Geekstack a start-up hoping to build both a collectible trading card game and an educational tool to promote science by making the scientists the heroes. Guess what arrived in the post this week? That’s right, just one Geekstack card. Which I think is a genius marketing move. Arguably this is little more than a business card, but Peter Christensen has pushed this as a sample card – and by putting a physical card out it builds emotion and connection to a product that might be available in beta decks just

A Card Game Designed For Heavy Duty Mathematics

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Now this looks fun! Geekstack (www.geekstack.com) is a card came, currently in the late stages of design, from Peter Chrisensen and Michael Pavelich. The hook? It’s not going to be just a great collectible card game, but it’s going to have educational cards by using real life people as the ‘heroes’, and it’s going to have a strong online component as well both for playing and trading. Not only that but it’s using the Silicon Valley network in the way that every other town and country gets jealous of… a quick call into one of the many “look at this