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Gottabet Has $1M To "Buy" New Users


Gottabet is a recently launched website that has created a community around making and participating in bets. They have $1 million to spend on marketing, and they're handing it over to the user that can bring in new users.

Gottabet is letting you design their marketing campaign, so long as it is directly related to a single bet on their site, so it can be tracked. They're exchanging one dollar for every new member you garner, so it better be a darn good bet. Gottabet works like this: create a bet, share it with the community, hope you win. Bets can be placed for cash, peanuts (Gottabet's currency), prizes, or charity, and can be made public or private. Their peanuts may be cashed in for prizes at a later date, but for now, it's just a point system. Gottabet also has VIP bets, which are sponsored, usually by a celebrity, and usually involve prizes for participants.

Gottabet has already gotten a good amount of support and attention, including VC funding and sponsored bets from the likes of Diddy and Mandy Moore. Their challenge to the community is sure to get their site some traction, and plenty of new members as well. They're already prepared for the viral nature of Internet culture, allowing you to embed bets with their javascript or html versions, covering the gamut for personal websites, blogs, and your MySpace, Hi5 and Piczo profiles. Potential competitors include BetsGoWild, and GoChongo, to some extent.

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