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Transitioning from a Developer to a Distributor of Mobile Games: Lon Otremba, CEO of Tylted (Part 5)
Sramana: When you market to your audience, do you have to do revenue sharing? Lon Otremba: If we are marketing we do not have to do revenue sharing because we are acquiring users directly. If AOL decides that they want to feature our games in their environment simply because our games monetize well, then we
Transitioning from a Developer to a Distributor of Mobile Games: Lon Otremba, CEO of Tylted (Part 4)
Sramana: What is your market reach? Lon Otremba: We are consistently running 10 million unique players a month. That is growing rapidly. We had 8 million just three months ago. The trajectory we are on now is one that we hope will provide us with 30 million monthly players by January or February. Sramana: How
Transitioning from a Developer to a Distributor of Mobile Games: Lon Otremba, CEO of Tylted (Part 3)
Sramana: Where did your journey go after Muzak? Lon Otremba: After I left I joined New York Angels and I was looking at a few other situations where I could be a good fit. In the mean time I became an investor and board member in both Internet media companies as well as medical technology
Transitioning from a Developer to a Distributor of Mobile Games: Lon Otremba, CEO of Tylted (Part 2)
Sramana: Once you realized that the large corporate environment of a place like Procter and Gamble was not for you, what did you do next? Lon Otremba: I was offered the opportunity to get into the media business with a company that published trade magazines. It was an opportunity to sell magazines and make more
Transitioning from a Developer to a Distributor of Mobile Games: Lon Otremba, CEO of Tylted (Part 1)
Sramana: Lon, let’s start with the background that leads up to the Tylted story. Where are you from? Lon Otremba: I grew up in Michigan. I am an identical twin and I was part of a family that was involved in the automotive industry. My father spent 38 years with the same company. My uncles
Bootstrapping a $10M Creative Marketplace: Envato Founder Couple Collis and Cyan Ta’eed (Part 7)
Sramana: What does the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Melbourne look like? Collis Ta’eed: It is a growing ecosystem. I feel that I have seen a tangible growth in the number of businesses here over the years, and we have had some VC funds move in. We have an incubator and an angel fund here. One of
Bootstrapping a $10M Creative Marketplace: Envato Founder Couple Collis and Cyan Ta’eed (Part 6)
Sramana: That is a very common structure now days. Our team is entirely virtual. I find things like Google Docs very helpful for running a virtual team. Cloud computing in general is very beneficial. We use Zoho for our CRM. Everybody who needs an account on those systems can do it from wherever they are.
Bootstrapping a $10M Creative Marketplace: Envato Founder Couple Collis and Cyan Ta’eed (Part 5)
Sramana: I have talked to a lot of entrepreneurs who are running exchange marketplace businesses. What you are describing is a phenomenon where people make a living from far away places and I think that aspect of these marketplace business is fantastic. Collis Ta’eed: It is spectacular. I think it is about the Internet empowering