Inside the Mind of a Funded Start Up Founder
This week we take a trip to the offices of augmented reality marketplace Poplar to speak to its co-founder David Ripert and get the inside line on the decision making process behind the bootstrapping versus fund-raising path.
In it we also discuss what the wider world of Virtual Reality will mean for the businesses and consumer of the future…and find out his answers to our Quick Fire Nine rapid-fire questions!
Follow David on Twitter here and Poplar on Twitter here!
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