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Interview with Howard Marks, Gamzee

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Gamzee (www.gamzee.com), a new game company founded by Howard Marks, the co-founder of Activision and Acclaim Games, announced a seed round of funding. There is a tremendous opportunity to be early in this market, to be first in the mobile social games market. What is Gamzee all about?

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

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This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Scott was one of the first employees at Activision and was VP of their Studio Business.

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Interview with Scott Lahman, GOGII

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Even though write once and run anywhere has been the holy grail, I think it's the false prophet. Those are almost like little social networks built around a topic. Our three founders have been working together for almost 20 years, since Activision. If you think that it is easy, however, you'll be disappointed.

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