On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 10:45 +0200, david blanchard wrote: > company such as Gameforge, Gamigo, Bigpoint are > currently investing a lot in third party projects. The fund a part of > the dev (up to 500k€ apparently), and provide support (live support, > visibility on their portals, etc) against royalties. I don’t have the > details yet. Why this strategy from them ? It looks to me like > externalization of the risk, putting some limited amount in various > projects in order to avoid missing the next big thing, and being > everywhere the competency is.
Could be good digging it yup! However, at the same time, it would be good to explore the consequences of such a partnership on the next rounds of funding. Since we basically become tied to an "editor", it could close a lot of exit options for traditional investors. We would also need to see what we mean by "investing in the project" - is it the same thing as the free software project, or more something on the company side? Xavier. _______________________________________________ Hackit Bar mailing list - [email protected] Wiki: http://community.hackit.cx/ List: http://community.hackit.cx/ml/ Forum: http://community.hackit.cx/forum/ Ideas: http://community.hackit.cx/ideas/ IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#politis
