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Re: Seesmic API possibilities and the standards we support

alexis bonte — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:43:10 -0000

Loic, just wanted to say tks for sharing this stuff, following your various posts gives me tons of ideas for my own company.

Re: Game and virtual world fundings top $500 million in 2008

alexis bonte — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:08:48 -0000

Hi we raised 550,000 euros in July 2008 in a angel round for eRepublik.com (massively multiplayer online strategy games)

Re: Are Independent Studios The Future of Gaming?

alexis bonte — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:07:27 -0000

Entirely agree with you, graphics, 3d and animations are over rated. A game can look amazing and be boring after 5 minutes. We are taking a totally reverse approach with www.erepublik.com allowing us to be a lot more creative.

Re: YouTube costs Google $2 million per day

alexis bonte — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:06:16 -0000

if correct, one has to wonder if this is fair competition to other independent sites aiming to make it in the online video space. Free and profitable is ok, but what do you call this?

Re: How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included!)

alexis bonte — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:29:07 -0000

Hi Andrew, just wanted to thank you for this excellent post. Compulsory reading for our senior team :o)

Re: How do you do concrete interviews for non-technical people?

alexis bonte — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:21:15 -0000

Hi Andrew, great post again (I now save them so i can read them when I have some thinking time). There is one thing that I think you underestimate and that I've seen after hiring probably close to one hundred people in 12 years of being an entrepreneur. If your impression in the first 2 minutes is not great and you are not dying to have the person on your team, then unlikely its the right person (not necessarily for the job but almost surely for your company).