On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 15:23 +0200, david blanchard wrote: > Yep, I had in my todo to look at what they do, it’s very interesting > indeed. I’ll definitely start to fill the form in the coming days.
An interesting video of the founder of Y-combinator. I don't always agree with his predicted trends, but there are quite a few that match ours, so it could provide a good framework to write the application. http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2010/08/paul-graham-on-trends-for-the-future.html Things to focus on: * Open source model pushed to the extreme. Matches changes in the liquidity of the information flow and adapts the game industry to changes with copyright model * State of the art customer service, profiled to maximize the ability to design the game with the players, in an industry where it is massively under-exploited (community often seen as more of a burden than an opportunity) * Making frivolous stuff - games. Significant enough to be what could provide Facebook with a business model, huge growth and transformation of the maret * Server-based * Need to address the issue of design with open-source that he points out. We solve it with selection and expertise in design (Deborah, focus of the founders, experience drawn out of the game industry) * Decentralized model adapt the company structure to the increase of liquidity: unrestrict the flow of information between players and game designers. * Offer another path to learn than schools (emphasis on development and growth). Employment model makes every employee an entrepreneur * (From another video) Focus on the founders strenghts - he cares more about finding smart people than the ideas themselves * (From another video) Keep the description short and to the point - he doesn't read big blobs of text. The other video is that one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacbJ72dluU&feature=channel 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
