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Published on 2012-05-18 11:20:07

Today Facebook became a public company. This is not only a great moment for social media but for venture capital, Silicon Valley and entrepreneurship. Congratulations to all of you who made it happen. Thanks for keeping the dream alive. Filed under: Social Media, Venture Capital Tagged: facebook, FB, vc, Venture Capital > read more

Still not tablet ready?

Published on 2012-04-13 19:22:39

A month ago I published a post on the iPad outselling all major PC manufacturers. This week Forrester published a study that makes it clear that tablets are also changing user behavior; disrupting print and online media, music and gaming. Device convergence is nothing new, but for many the device of choice is still mobile [...] > read more

Crowdfunding as an alternative to bootstrapping or venture capital?

Published on 2012-03-18 15:46:59

This week, industry veteran Tim Schafer (Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango), managed to raise $3,336,371 to fund his next game. Crowdfunding is now so popular, especially for games, that there was even a session at GDC 2012. So far, however, crowdfunding has been mostly a way to fund projects with unclear commercial [...] > read more

Are you tablet ready?

Published on 2012-03-08 22:10:34

No, I’m not asking if you’re ready to wait in line for the new iPad. I’m wondering if you’re taking seriously the importance of the tablet as a key device. Perhaps you have to rethink your product and design “tablet first”. Perhaps it helps your business or hurts it. No matter what the impact to [...] > read more

Serving non-consumers, self expression and focus: the keys to Pinterest’s success

Published on 2012-02-18 22:30:18

Two things dominated my newsfeed these last couple of weeks: Jeremy Lin and Pinterest. I don’t think much more can be added to the Linsanity so I’ll focus on why I think Pinterest is succesful. 1) Serving non-consumers The web is plagued with social bookmarking or discovery sites like Delicious, Reddit or StumbleUpon. Most of [...] > read more

I’m the Ambassador of Spain!

Published on 2012-02-15 17:43:05

Well, kinda. If you play CityVille today you will be greeted by the Ambassador of Spain to CityVille. He’s bringing a lot of new Spanish-themed content and looks a lot like me. Thanks to Matt Winalski and Andy Wang from our great art team. If you want to learn more about CityVille in general and [...] > read more

From Zynga to ZNGA

Published on 2011-12-17 00:24:59

Today Zynga became a public company. It is the result of the incredible effort and talent of a lot of people but it’s also the beginning a new journey. Filed under: Gaming, Social Media, Venture Capital Tagged: Gaming, social gaming, vc, Venture Capital, znga, zynga > read more

CityVille!

Published on 2011-05-03 00:58:00

I have spent my last year and a half in Cafe World focusing mainly on product and more recently acting as Executive Producer. I have now joined CityVille as Director of Product. I want to thank everyone in Cafe World for making my day to day amazing. I can’t wait for the challenge of making [...] > read more

Launching Café World

Published on 2009-10-16 13:34:54

A week after my last Farmville post, I joined Zynga as Product Manager. Being part of Café World’s launch team has been an amazing experience so far. It’s great to be on the other side of social games. This new role deserves all of my attention so I will unfortunately not be as active in blogging [...] > read more

Farmville animals

Published on 2009-09-09 09:04:30

A lot has happened since my last post. I have a lot to thank to Lisa Chan, Zynga’s blogger, who featured it. I’ll cover the impact it had in my personal life in a later post. Today,  let’s figure out the economics of animals on Far > read more

Farmville treeconomics: is this going too far?

Published on 2009-08-25 02:06:35

Fred Wilson blogged recently about Zynga, the #1 social gaming company, looking for talent in Wall Street. He should know, he's a Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures, one of the VC firms backing the company. I am sure that to many this might s > read more

Social features blur the line between casual and hardcore gaming

Published on 2009-08-14 02:51:14

Some years ago you either loved video games and spent hours playing on your console or you just played Snake on your phone. Now the line that divides casual gamers from hardcore gamers is blurring, and social features are to blame. Or thank. Wikipedi > read more

The iPhone apps VCs want to see

Published on 2009-07-31 23:41:22

I just came back from the iPhoneDevCamp where Chi-Hua Chien, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Stanford GSB alumn,  was the Friday keynote speaker. Chi-Hua is actively involved in the iFund, KPCB’s $100 million iPhone investmen > read more

Cleantech VC investment: how big the rebound?

Published on 2009-07-30 17:29:15

Yesterday Ernst & Young published a report on cleantech VC investment that is creating some buzz online. As a follow-up to my previous post, I want to put this report into perspective by comparing it to the VentureSource and PwC/NVCA Q2 reports. > read more