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We are so excited to making our March event a real gem on
Social Gaming. From the recent strings of Merger&Acquisition activities in
this industry, where the big fish are chasing after the small fish, can we make
sense of where it's leading to? Facebook is playing the house with its Facebook
Credits and big guys are gobbling up small shops like "all you can eat lunch",
while Google is staffing up full steam to code their own games, what's left for
the small game developers?
Hear the stories directly from our A-list speakers who have
been there, done that, and an industry analyst who has seen it from the box
seat. [No panel. Purely speaker-format.]
::MARK ROSE Sold SpareChange
to Playspan, which was acquired by Visa, March,
2011.
::MAX
SKIBINSKYSold Hive7 to Playdom in 2010, which was acquired
by Disney afterwards.
::ATUL BAGGA,
Senior Equity Research Analyst at ThinkEquity covering Gaming industry
Agenda:
6:00 - 7:00 pizza, networking (get yourself plenty
of time to meet every one!)
7:00 - 8:30 Mark Rose, Max Skibinsky, Atul Bagga,
special guest speakers
8:30 - 9-ish, Round-the-Table, you are the
star!
9:00 - more schmoozing
::MARK ROSE, VP Product, Visa (also functions
as Janitor and ERT groupie)
Mark started building apps on Facebook in early 2007.
Mark's first app ScoreMe got a million users but didn't monetize well. Mark
then co-founded SpareChange which was a micropayments solution on Facebook,
MySpace and Bebo. SpareChange was acquired by Playspan in 2009, which was
acquired by Visa recently in March of 2011. Mark has over 15 years experience
in product management and consumer financial services including PayPal, E*TRADE,
Yodlee and HedgeStreet. Mark is a consumer experience zealot, drives decision
making from analytics, and loves inventing new user
experiences...
::MAX SKIBINSKY has been 15 year veteran of Silicon
Valley. He bootstrapped his first consulting startup in 90ties, working with
clients such as Netscape/AOL, Celera Genomics and Electronic Arts. After years
of working inside many startups and few bigger companies Max jumped into world
of web 2.0 innovation, social networks and online communities. He founded Hive7,
one of the very first social gaming startups which in following years redefined
the world of traditional entertainment. In 2010 Hive7 was sold to Playdom which
in turn was sold to Disney few months later. When not designing, recruiting,
brainstorming, advising, and building startups Max can be found flying in
general vicinity of Palo Alto airspace.
::ATUL BAGGA,
Senior Equity Research Analyst covering Gaming industry at ThinkEquity. Regularly presented at a number of
gaming industry conferences, Atul is widely quoted and interviewed on TV and
print media such as Economist, New York Times, Time, Wall Street Journal,
Bloomberg, CNN, and USA Today. Atul received his MBA from Haas School of
Business at University of Berkeley, Masters in Management from University of
Bombay and Bachelors in Engineering from National Institute of Technology in
India.
This event is generously sponsored by our friends
at the Pillsbury Law Firm, who provide top services and expertise to tech
entrepreneurs among other specialties.
Your ERT organizer
Shirley Lin
Founder, Chief Player, YoXi123 - creator of Huggy
Hearts app on Facebook
Formerly known as the ERT (Entrepreneurs RoundTable), curator Shirley's fingers are getting tired typing the over-used word "entrepreneurs" and that people still can't remember the group's name. Therefore, the *800 Birds". http://www.facebook.com/groups/800Birds/
::: Membership criteria:::
Founder, Entrepreneur, Developers, Self-inflicted-slave-driver? you must play at least 3 out of the four leading title roles above. Honestly, if you are not, you'll get seriously bored by our meetings.
We have a lot of energy, abundant of passion and enthusiasm and this is a genuinely peer-to-peer sharing and learning community. Don't come in as a salesman just to pitch. If you do, you'll be disliked instantly.
The philosophy applies as follows.
We believe that entrepreneurs deserve more than just 30 seconds or 3 min. to tell their story of their ideas and the product out of their love of technologies, sleepless nights and showerless days!
Based in Silicon Valley, we meet every month gathering startup founders/geeks with more focus on social apps, to genuinely share ideas, technical expertise, business experiences, to vent on the platform guys for keep changing their policies, and of course to network.
Different from other tech events, at our events, each entrepreneur is given spot light, either as speaker to demo or as participant.
Our live demos are for the real internet products. Our speakers usually talk shop about the technologies of their products and share their entrepreneurial experiences - whether good or bad.
We welcome entrepreneurs and geeks to join, so long as you are genuinely willing to share your experiences and knowledge too.
Formerly ERT was originally started by only a handful of some really smarites Facebook application developers including John Fan, Flora Sun, Teck Chia, Waleed Waleed Abdulla, Dave Westwood, SueZanne Toh and frequented by founders such as Aihui Ong, Meng-you Yang, Yong Su Kim, Chris Cinelli, Robert Yau. The group started with only 3 -4 geeks eager to share and exchange technical tips and knowledge in the early days when Facebook first open up its APIs.
Shirley joined in late 2007 and have been a loyal member since. She started curating the monthly gathering since mid-2008.
Our events have become one of the top 5 Silicon Valley best events, due to its well delivered no-nonsense content, high quality speakers as well as participants that have made the deeper networking and bonding among its thousands of attendees.
