2005 Product Social Network Writing 
socalTECH
JUNE 30, 2011
I returned to the gaming industry in 2005, when I started Acclaim Games, which we then sold to Playdom. There's been a dramatic shift in recent years from the traditional videogame model, to social, mobile, and casual games. Howard Marks: In 2005, when I started Acclaim, I believed the future of games were free to play, online games.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes. Tempus Fugit.
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socalTECH
APRIL 25, 2011
We literally had 5,000 to 10,000 SKUs to get our products out worldwide. We're really competing with the product that came with your phone. Of course, it became a carrier driven business, as carriers started carrying color phones, and they needed products which would take advantage of those phones.
socalTECH
APRIL 30, 2010
Let's start with the products. The reason passwords don't work, is because if you want a stronger password, when a system forces you to use a certain number of characters, or put numbers or special characters into a password, people can use keystroke logging to force themselves into your network or your PC.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. We then captured this conversation again on camera. We then spoke about startups. I totally agree.
SoCal Delicious
MAY 6, 2012
There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 12, 2010
We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Read more: TechCrunch.
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