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A New Generation of Gaming: Social and Viral (Part 1)
By Guest Author Cindy Weng Social gaming has, over the past year, been on a tremendous incline in the online world. Flash-based games have popped up as both standalone sites and as applications to larger social networks. Any avid Facebook user can tell you about all the game requests they receive, inviting them to play
Social Gaming on the Rise, and Lessons for Would-be Entrepreneurs
By Guest Author Saad Fazil Social gaming is changing the way games are marketed and distributed. Rather than relying on big publishers and distributors such as Electronic Arts, studios are leveraging the power of social media to virally spread their games. In order to better understand how they have built sustaining businesses, I talked to
Shervin Pishevar’s Dream: Social Gaming Network (Part 7)
SM: What about Iran? What is happening there and what is your relationship with Iran today? SP: There is so much talent there. Sharif University is like MIT, and they send a lot of their students to Stanford. We are blocks away from Stanford, so I am recruiting students who have grown up in Iran
Shervin Pishevar’s Dream: Social Gaming Network (Part 6)
SM: I recently watched a program on 60 Minutes about lions being poisoned in Africa. Over the holiday, we were in a forest which is the home of the Royal Bengal tiger. In that forest there are 274 tigers left. The idea of doing social causes with your gaming networks is very interesting. SP: If
Shervin Pishevar’s Dream: Social Gaming Network (Part 5)
SM: What was the genesis of a company based on social applications? How did you arrive at the thesis that it was a sustainable market? SP: I organized a hack-a-thon at our offices at FreeWebs. We told every developer to build what they wanted on the Facebook platform for FreeWebs. I started advocating getting everyone
Shervin Pishevar’s Dream: Social Gaming Network (Part 4)
SM: What was your next step after HyperOffice? SP: I became the founding president of Webs. My first hire at WebOS was a really young Afghan-Turkish immigrant named Zeki Mokhtarzada. He was super smart.
Shervin Pishevar’s Dream: Social Gaming Network (Part 3)
SM: Did you get any investors to help you get started? SP: We raised money from investors after a year. Initially we raised $150,000, and then $700,000.
Shervin Pishevar’s Dream: Social Gaming Network (Part 2)
SM: How did the circumstances of your upbringing transfer into your professional life? SP: That forged in our minds the sacrifices our parents were making for us. The least we could do for them was study. I wanted very badly to make them proud.
