This Week in Startups - Susan Choe, Founder & CEO of Outspark
发布时间 2010-07-16 23:02:14 来源
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This Week in Startups with guest Susan Choe, Founder & CEO of Outspark. Jason Calacanis hosts This Week in Startups.
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00:05:00 Interview - Susan Choe, Founder & CEO of Outspark (http://outspark.com)
00:06:30 Outspark has been operation for 3.5 years and publishes free MMOs to play and people pay for elements and features, the concept has been widely used in Asia and they bring many games from that region.
00:09:30 The idea to actually start her own business came from her time at Yahoo trying to achieve the same thing but decided to go out on her own
00:13:45 What are the revenue expectations when you launch a new game? 10-15% pay $45-50 a month for 4 -- 8 months and media companies are starting to approach them for virtual goods
00:18:30 What is it like being a female CEO? Female CEOs should be judged the same as male CEOs it's all about performance and execution, once guys get over it we all have fun achieving the same results, gender shouldn't matter.
00:20:00 Do you think less women want to be CEOs? Traditionally men do it but Susan finds it fun, people need to give women a chance
00:23:30 VC's do profile and usually go on trends
00:24:00 What is the most important thing for social media games to focus on?
00:27:00 Why are these games addictive?
00:30:00 Will we see these on the iPad?
00:31:15 Will HTML5 be robust enough as a gaming platform?
00:33:45 ASK JASON -- Adam Bunnell -- Built a plan to incorporate videos and college recruitment with more detailed information than currently given. When a project gets out of control, what is the best way to proceed?
THE NEWS with Lon Harris
00:51:45 Apple Announcement - Steve Jobs this morning offered something of an apology to Apple fans about the iPhone 4's now-infamous reception and antenna problems, which he called "Antennagate."
00:59:15 New MySpace Profile and Threadbox Acquisition
01:03:45 HelvetiNote
01:06:00 FrontierVille Hits 20 Million Monthly Users - Social gaming champions Zynga have another massive hit on their hands.
01:09:30 Ze Frank Games - Video blogger and "performance artist" Ze Frank has received $500,000 from a group of VC's and angel investors to start a stealth project known as "Ze Frank Games," though the specific nature of the project remains shrouded in secrecy. Investors include Andressen Horowitz, Founder Collective, Ron Conway's SV Angel, betaworks, Gary Vaynerchuk and more.
01:14:20 Metaweb Acquired by Google
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