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

YoungUpstarts

Facebook’s chief online game developer, Zynga , was recently given the enormous market value of $7 billion in its initial public offering and ninety-three percent of Zynga’s yearly revenue is generated through Facebook. In deed, in 2009,World of Warcraft alone represented 10% of global online gaming revenues.

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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.

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Blitzscaling: Silicon Valley’s Harmful Idea of Success

Austin Startup

or Charles Hudson at Precursor Ventures the moment I started a new business that I felt had global potential. My goal is simply to point out that some of the most prominent myths Silicon Valley and the startup ecosystem have invented to propel the industry to global heights are just that: myths. Most definitely. Not at all?—?although