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Online Gaming, Mobile Entertainment And The Land Of Opportunity In Video Game Design

YoungUpstarts

Atari and Nintendo have now borne witness to two revolutionary inventions that are changing the landscape of video game design: the Internet and the smart device. The Internet provides a completely unique platform for new video games. The most popular way to utilize this is through Facebook on so called “social games.”

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Carpe Diem. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. million in 2010 sales).

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2011 May be the Year of the IPO for Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

It has been at least a decade since going public via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) has been considered a credible exit strategy for startups. At any rate, it seems only appropriate that social media sites, which have dominated the Internet over the past few years, will likely lead startups back into the IPO game.

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Entrepreneurs: Due Diligence on Investors is Smart

Gust

Network with other entrepreneurs. Contact peers you have met through networking, both ones who have used this investor, and ones who haven’t. Check track record on the Internet and social networks. Ask the investor for “references,” meaning contacts at companies where previous investments were made.

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Web 2.0 companies not producing cash?

Eric Friedman

The shortage of revenue among social networks, blogs and other “social media” sites that put user-generated content and communications at their core has persisted despite more than four years of experimentation aimed at turning such sites into money-makers. I am not sure that I agree…

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