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November 06, 2010
China's Growing Luxury Market is Good News for P1
P1 - the exclusive invitation-only social network focused China's luxury market is in a sweet spot. The luxury market has almost totally recovered from the recession. Sales in China grew an astounding 30 percent year-over-year, reaching almost $13 billion. China is projected to become the 3rd largest consumer of luxury products and services by the middle of the decade as reported by Luxury Daily.
In 2020 the affluent class in China will reach 120m (12% of the urban population) and the upper middle class is projected to reach 600m (60% of urban population). Other social networks like Kaixin001, Renren.com, 51.com and QQ wil only be growing the middle class, totally ignoring the affluent class. This is great news for P1 who are totally focused on this demography. A recent article in Forbes covered "Selling to China's luxury market 101" but if you really would like to tap into this market my recommendation is to get in touch with the fabulous crew at P1.
Disclaimer, I am a board member of P1.
September 17, 2010
Playhopper one of 6 new ventures by Facebook veterans.
PlayHopper was outed by CNN as one of 6 new ventures by Facebook veterans last week.
July 08, 2010
The9 Invests in AuroraFeint
The Chinese Gaming company The9 has invested in AuroraFeint - makers of the OpenFeint platform to bring OpenFeint to China & Android. Very exciting times for Jason & the team. I first got involved with OpenFeint as and advisor last year after I left Facebook & have been very impressed by the speed Jason Citron & his team have executed on their vision under the guiding star of Peter Relan, founder of YouWeb who incubated the company.
OpenFeint has over 2,200 live games for the iPhone, and will soon have publishers such as Astraware, Digital Chocolate, Glu Mobile, Hudson Soft and others onboard.
With both Chinese and Japanese investors onboard (the Japanese gaming giant DeNA invested in the company last year) AuroraFeint is set up for a strong future presence in Asia.
Very excited to see how the how the story unfolds.
Disclaimer: I'm a former advisor & a small shareholder in AuroraFeint.
November 16, 2009
CrowdStar's Happy Aquarium & Happy Pets
Big congratulations to the CrowdStar team on the successfully launch of Happy Pets, yet another great social game on Facebook. In just a week Happy Pets went from 0 to 890,000 Monthly active users. Amazing. Following Happy Aquarium's tremendous success not long ago, this is just shows that it wasn't a one off only. Keep a close eye on these guys - they are going to go far. Social gaming have just started to take off, and it is definitely not the-winner-takes-it-all market. There is plenty of room for new companies in this space. The key thing for all social games though, is to convert active users to active paying users. My advice: focus on optimizing mobile payments to a more salient place in the UI.
Disclaimer: I sit on CrowdStar's advisory board.
November 03, 2009
October 12, 2009
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Innovation Day 2009 Berlin Oct 29
I'm going to be a Panelist at Deutsche Telekom's Innovation Day 2009 in Berlin on Oct 29, together with Julie Meyer (Adriane Capital) Aza Raskin (Mozilla) Norbert Bolz, and Christopher Schläffer (Head of Innovation & Products, Deutsche Telekom. The panel will be moderated by Bruno Giussani, Director of TED Conferences in Europe.
Internetdagarna, Stockholm Nov 3
October 09, 2009
Digital Chocolate To Use OpenFeint
Digital Chocolate, one of the most frequent publishers of iphone games is going to use OpenFeint for scoreboards and achievements. This is a huge win for OpenFeint, that already has more than 3 million active users on its platform and more than 200 games in the app store. I have covered OpenFeint several times before here . Also check out the interview Jason Citron, Peter Relan & I gave to TUAW some time ago. If you are an iphone game developer integrate OpenFeint immediately! You won't regret it. Follow: OpenFeint on Twitter for more frequent updates.
Disclaimer: I'm on their advisory board.
September 06, 2009
September 03, 2009
Summer Davos, Dalian next week
Next week I'm off to Beijing for my first board meeting with P1 which shall be really exciting and then I'm straight off to the Annual Meeting of the Champions 2009 also called "Summer Davos" in Dalian, China. If you're going to be at the event and want to meet up please ping me.
August 06, 2009
Profiled in Swedish Metro
I was recently interviewed by Metro about life after Facebook. As usual there are some mistakes in the article and some quotes are taken out of context, but otherwise pretty okay.
July 31, 2009
Minigore - Now live with OpenFeint
The anticipation has been great for Chillingo's Minigore and it is now here. Minigore is a survival shooter game with two great on-screen joysticks. I am pretty sure this game will end up if not as number one in iTunes app store - so as one of the top games. The most interesting part is that although Chillingo announced Crystal - its own social gaming platform, Minigore has chosen to integrate OpenFeint instead.
OpenFeint vs. Ngmoco's Plus+
In the battle heating up over social gaming platforms Pockergamer has a great write up and comparison. After laying out all the other competitors it decides to take a deep dive with OpenFeint and Ngmoco's Plus+. Needless to say, OpenFeint wins big time over Plus+ in three out of four critical categories!
Disclaimer: I'm an active advisor to OpenFeint.
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