Sramana Mitra: It’s an execution game. Doyon Kim: Right. And we don’t expect people to play our games for three years or four years. Yes, they can copy it, but we have a head start. SM: So, your strategy is to continuously come up with cross-platform games, keep using the user base, and market new
Sramana: In 2009 you received some angel funding and earned TechCrunch as a first customer. What came next? John Ramey: Initially I was very nervous about accepting that first deal from TechCrunch. They are a significant first customer. I working in their office for a bit and then it went live. [Michael] Arrington wrote a
How can entrepreneurs hijack capitalism back from the speculators? Sramana Mitra will be discussing Capitalism 2.0 and ways entrepreneurs and innovators can hijack capitalism back on Thursday, January 26th, at The Commonwealth Club in Santa Clara, California. Please join us for a lively and interactive event. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. You can find more
Entrepreneurs are invited to attend the 111th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable at a special time: Thursday, January 12, 2012, 7:30 p.m. PST/Friday, January 13, 9:00 a.m. IST in India. This is to accommodate entrepreneurs pitching from the Entrepreneurship Cell at IIT Kharagpur’s Global Entrepreneur Summit. You can find more details here and register here. All
Sramana Mitra: What are the top five things you need to do when you design a game to be a cross-platform social and mobile game? Doyon Kim: One thing is you have to understand the technology. One way to do it is have one game for this platform and completely rewrite everything, maybe use the
Sramana: Are you saying that a small publisher could get on your platform and use your technology to sell directly without having a large sales force? John Ramey: Yes, that is correct. The majority of our publishers do not have salespeople. Our largest ones do, but the point is that publishers can participate without having
The year 2012 promises to be a busy and productive one for 1M/1M and the blog as we work to change the very nature of capitalism and help more people start and nurture successful businesses. One of the first events for the year is a talk by Sramana on capitalism 2.0. Also, look for new