Founder coaching & advice on market/trends would've been amazingħ/ JamLegend grew 20%+ MoM and our first investor told us to move to California! Our team grew but fundraising was HARD despite meeting Jeff Bezos. Advice on live ops would've helped our sanityĦ/ We should have gone into Facebook games and mobile games sooner - Robert Scoble asked and Nabeel Hyatt and I commiserated over our respective startups! But we loved rhythm based games and music. We maintained it every hour, every day, while figuring out other issues, like our broken dishwasher. Advice on marketing and distribution would've helpedĥ/ Turns out our game was a live service (multiplayer!), we thought it was a website with user content, leaderboards, & profiles. Wagner James Au & Om Malik was our first publication interview, Frank Gruber was the first social media guru who noticed us, and even TechCrunch gave us a headline. We could've used advice on □ game design and engineering practices which would've saved us a lot of hassleĤ/ When we launched the game, we had 1000 invites for people. It worked! Bugs galore & the database crashed! Luckily a relative knew someone who knew someone. We argued over what to do which was hard because we were roommates! We could've used advice on □ co-founder relationships and our team.ģ/ The games Rock Band & Guitar Hero saved our friendships - so we put Guitar Hero online to play with friends. We could've used some business advice □️Ģ/ Our first game was in the NYTimes, Time, and ESPN as a "sign of the apocalypse", but two members of our team left. We got $1.82 from our first ValueClick ads. Or a friend to encourage them to apply!ġ/ It's 2008, the economy is in free fall □ and the Harold & Kumar sequel had launched! Arjun Lall, Ryan Wilson, & I lived in a free house with craigslist furniture, brewed beer, and spent all our time on our computers. □ My #GDC2023 announcement! a16z Games SPEEDRUN - a startup school for gaming companies #GDCġ5 yrs ago, I WISHED for the shortcuts to the startup game□ Read more for my founder story and to get an application.
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