December 18th, 2012

SGN Makes Its Big Push For Cross-Platform, Mobile-Social Games With The Launch Of Its MasterKey Technology

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While Zynga has had high-profile struggles to adapt to the rapid growth of mobile gaming, Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and CEO of the Social Gaming Network, said he’s found a solution — MasterKey, his company’s just-launched technology for cross-platform game development.

DeWolfe, who also co-founded Myspace, has been talking about the vision behind MasterKey for a while, for example telling me→ Read More

October 27th, 2011

Keen On … The Greatest Entrepreneurs Are Born To Deal With Failure (TCTV)

Few people know failure better than venture capitalists. Even the most successful fail much more than they succeed and the best are those, like Vinod Khosla, who acknowledge that their successes are much rarer than their failures. Another venture capitalist well acquainted with failure is Peter Gardner, Managing Director of Wavepoint Ventures, a Menlo Park shop that primarily invests in… → Read More

October 26th, 2011

Keen On… Chris DeWolfe: What I Learned From The MySpace Failure (TCTV)

There is always an element of the confessional about interviewing people, but I really felt like a priest when I interviewed MySpace co-founder and CEO Chris DeWolfe earlier this week. DeWolfe was keynoting San Francisco’s FailCon conference and our conversation naturally focused on failure – and particularly, of course, the meteoric failure of MySpace.

This the second in a weeklong series… → Read More