I was invited last week by the legal firm Biris & Goran that helped me in parts of the eRepublik Series A round to talk at an event: “IT Start Up How To” they held at the Novotel in Bucharest.The event was very well organized with interesting questions from the audience. eRepublik was out in force amongst [...]
Overall Gamescom (trade day August 19th) was very interesting, the traditional industry was out in force with giant stands in spite or maybe because of a drop in sales of about 33% YoY in June / July.Online players were a lot more discrete, only present in the trade area. Interesting when you think that this [...]
When I see something like this it just makes it all worthwhile, a big thank you to the Indonesian eRepublik community for showing us once more how special they are and how lucky we are to have them as eRepublik citizens. On top of the highest volcano in Java, Mt Tangkuban Perahu, must have been [...]
Just wanted to share this show hosted by Jaston Calacanis, a little slow to start but really excellent content going forward. If you have a start up are starting one or would want to start one. Straight no bull shared experiences and advice, his guest, Seth Sternberg (Meebo co-founder and CEO) is also excellent and [...]
A few days late, I felt I should write a few words since only five months after celebrating its first anniversary, the New World has reached the 100,000 active citizens mark (active citizens visit the site on average at least once every 48 hours), gathering together players from almost 200 countries. eRepublik also celebrates its [...]
I could not resist relaying the news in my blog since Jimena is my wife and I am super proud of her ). She is probably one of the humblest people I know and does amazing work to help artists and make the world a better place. You can find out more about the foundation here [...]
A good friend Antonio developed this app for the iphone after I had a fun chat at a dinner with my other friend Micha to come up with the idea together. Its called “isaycheese” and Antonio asked me to help him spread the word. Its a really simple app that was developed in a few [...]
Is the title of a 1 page article we had on Expansion, Spain’s leading economical newspaper.The article by M. Prieto is really good as she really understands what we are doing. She doesn´t fall in the trap of comparing say, WoW a game that took: 5 years to devellop, over 100 people team and 45 million [...]
This is a video test (in french) of eRepublik.com by Thierry Bezier of intruders.tv Its a good test although it only covers the first steps of the game it gives an interesting idea of what a first time user will see including some of the things we are not doing to make that experience easier [...]
Just found an interview I gave to intruders.tv at le Web, where I go over the eRepublik concept and future plans. Share
