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Myspace co-founder Chris DeWolfe thinks he has the keys to social gaming success

Mar22
by on March 22, 2014 at 4:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Profiles and Interviews

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The social gaming battlefield is littered with the corpses of former success stories that suddenly died when the public got bored or when their developers failed to spot a threat on the horizon. Chris DeWolfe, best known as the co-founder and first CEO of Myspace, now spends his time at the frontline of social gaming with his company SGN, which has had successes with games like Panda Jam and Bingo Blingo. I caught up with him in Austin, Texas during SXSW earlier this month to find out how he plans to keep SGN from suffering the troubles faced in recent…

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How to design a recurring revenue model that will attract capital

Mar22
by on March 22, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider

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George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures, a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. One of the first things that a venture capitalist looks for in assessing an investment opportunity is the revenue model of the business. More specifically, they are looking for the frequency of that revenue stream, and whether or not it is recurring and easily predictable. The rationale being investors prefer businesses that maximize the lifetime value of their consumers, and get maximum leverage and returns on the initial marketing cost of customer acquisition (which they are funding). Designing a winning,…

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How I tried to crowdfund my tuition, but got 20 potential clients instead

Mar22
by on March 22, 2014 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Social Media

Cost Of University Textbooks Rises To About $900 Per Year
Vikas Lalwani is part of Product and Marketing team at Frrole, a tech startup based in India. It all started earlier this year when I got accepted at MakeGamesWithUs Summer Academy. MakeGamesWithUs is an iOS game publishing company with its focus on helping those who want to learn about game development. It recently announced its first Summer Academy program, an extensive two-month course dedicated to train students in game design, development, marketing and much more. The program attracted more than 1,000 applicants in the first month itself, and witnessed similar numbers in following months. For final batch size of less than 200 students, the program…

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