1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: SaleSpider, Toronto, Canada

Digital media company SaleSpider owns a 720,000-member social network for small and medium businesses (SMBs) accessed through the site, Facebook, and a mobile app, and an ad network for branding and direct response campaigns. The company focuses on helping small business owners make new contacts, maintain their networks, and find sales leads – a rapidly

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: i-Jet Media, Silicon Valley, California

i-Jet Media is a social games publisher and social media distribution network. Within the framework of cooperation with social games developers, i-Jet Media examines their games, markets, elaborates on, and adapts games, integrates applications, and provides technical support for users in many world languages.

Deal Radar 2009: DubMeNow

DubMeNow is a mobile application for exchanging business cards and instantaneously managing contact information. Founder Manoj Ramnani came up with the idea on a flight from Washington, DC to Seattle. He had collected over 30 business cards and began entering all of them in Outlook. He was halfway into the task when his laptop’s battery died,

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Social Apps vs. Social Games

By Guest Author Saad Fazil After reviewing social gaming companies, I move on to RockYou and LivingSocial — two very successful companies in the social applications space — to find out more about the similarities and differences between social games and apps.

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

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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

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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

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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.