Tweet February 6, 2012 – 40 employees. $16M raised over the years. Nearly 40 games created. Launch Draw Something on both Android and iOS. Their 2nd iOS game ever.http://www.businessinsider.com/10-days-after-launch-this-hot-new-app-has-12… 1st 40k installs from paid installs from within other apps ($3,000 budget) and users of their
Tweet About 11 Thoughts For A Thursday: With an endless firehose of opinions, comments, blog posts, articles, tweets, etc., I felt there was a lot of great insight being drowned out. I plan to surface insight that interests me, both new and old. I’ll also be
Tweet Last week marked the two-year anniversary of the sale of Draw Something (OMGPOP) to Zynga. Draw Something’s explosive 7-week ride in early 2012 culminated into a worldwide brand and was then acquired by Zynga for a rumored $183 million. In the past two years since
Tweet For my early readership, Fred Wilson warned me that it’d be difficult to write posts as long and thoughtful as my original post for this series — he was right and I missed last week. Therefore, I’m going to try altering the format to
Tweet When less than 7,000 of us early-adopters arrived in Austin from all over the world for SXSW Interactive conference in 2007, we were met with Twitter visualization displays in the hallways. These screens cost $11k and were about the only money Twitter ever spent
Tweet A letter to Ted Black: Ted, 4-ticket season ticket holder and downtown advocate here. I was watching the first episode of the HBO 24/7 Winter Classic for Penguins vs Capitals. In this episode, the Penguins come visit Buffalo to play the Sabres. I saw
Tweet Imagine a search engine like Amazon.com, but all the products are sold by all the local retailers. So instead of having something shipped from Amazon.com, it gets shipped or picked up or dropped off by a local retailer — maybe they’d even price match
Tweet Buffalo, In 2006 I moved back to Buffalo after living across the US in Austin, Denver, Houston, Manchester, Boston and more. I was running a 40-client SEO/SEM firm and writing for a relatively unknown publication called TechCrunch. Moving home I made three commitments to
Tweet This is by no means a comprehensive post, but rather some info I found on the Internet after researching the mayor position in the City of Buffalo, and what it would take to win. Pretty interesting stuff. “This city needs someone with passion for
Tweet East Side Showroom for drinks or a meal (delicious and serves old fashioned drinks that take like 5 minutes to make). If in North Austin, the tres leches cake at Chuy’s. “Frank” for brunch. Magnolia for breakfast. South Congress Cafe for any meal, cool