Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Doyon Kim, CEO of Pangalore (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: They are more powerful, which makes it a PR nightmare. So, you don’t have a solution to this. You observe a problem; I observe a problem. There is no solution. We’ll just have to deal with this muck. It is an open problem, don’t you think?

Doyon Kim: It is, yes. It is becoming a more serious problem. I read a book about five years ago – and I don’t remember the title of the book, and at the time I didn’t like it – that was criticizing the Web 2.0 movement. What they were saying, basically, is this Web 2.0 thing gives too much power to amateurs, and anybody can be an expert. Anybody can be influential with this new Internet. Because I was in the Web 2.0 industry, I didn’t like the tone at the time, but now I kind of agree. >>>

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Doyon Kim, CEO of Pangalore (Part 4)

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 games to them.

DK: Yes. >>>

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Garrett, Co-Founder And Managing Director, Crosscut Ventures (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold

Irina: How does Open Angel Forum work?

Brian: Jason Calacanis put together a new platform for entrepreneurs to pitch a group of angels without paying to get in front of the them. He was upset by some of the pay-to-present angel networks that had popped up.

So, he started Open Angel Forum. They’ve now launched in several cities across the U.S. and internationally. The one that I most recently attended had five companies pitching to more than 40 local angels and seed investors here in Los Angeles.

It’s a very efficient way to get your story in front of a good group of active angel investors looking for new opportunities to put money to work. >>>