Deal Radar 2009: Zynga

We continue our focus on gaming applications for social networks with San Francisco-based Zynga. Founded in January 2007 by Mark Pincus, Zynga marries Pincus’s knowledge of social networks with his desire to create the next mass market video game phenomenon. Through his experience with Tribe Networks, which he founded in 2003, Pincus saw that the

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Deal Radar 2009: Social Gaming Network

Deal Radar continues to present bootstrapped companies in the growing online gaming segment. Founded in 2007 Social Gaming Network (SGN) offers gaming applications exclusively for social networks. The company was spun off from Webs (formerly known as Freewebs) by founder Shervin Pishevar, who was also the founding president and COO of Webs. The idea for SGN

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Billions In The Bubble: Siara CEO Vivek Ragavan (Part 6)

SM: You moved on from Redback in May of 2001. What came next? VR: I joined Atrica, which was about Ethernet. When I was at Redback a lot of us were talking about how Ethernet was going to dominate and that SONET would transition into an Ethernet network. Ethernet was already data-centric. The only thing

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