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Public Group active 2 months, 1 week agoAbout the company (accounting, legal, partnerships…)
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blanchard posted an update in the group
Business 2 months, 1 week agoAbout subcontracting work discussed on the chat :
* the studio I’m in contact with is creating a card game. I don’t have the details yet, basically all i know is that it’s solo and the theme is music. They have an internal team to develop it. They are not very familiar with html5 dev, and want to know how we could help their team, based on…[Read more]
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blanchard posted an update in the group
Business 5 months agoupdate of cash forecast here : http://git.farsides.com/?a=blob&p=share&h=8a3c52482c96d5aeb97a406018c691c06f2a1b3a&n=forecast%20Dec%2020.ods
Main assumptions :
- CNC is confirmed (at least the first 75%, because no visibility yet on remaining 25)
- Adolfo part time for 2 months starting Jan
- No marketing investment included except current…[Read more]-
Hmm, I’m pretty uncomfortable with having no marketing push at all – would be good to be able to bring a good crowd on the game when we get the recipe right.
So we need to discuss it yep – from the look of it I’m not sure we can afford MCMic’s internship if Adolfo comes back, as it prevents us from keeping hiring Adolfo past February, and also…[Read more]
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following the discussion on the chat (dec 27th), update of the forecast here : http://git.farsides.com/?a=blob&p=share&h=3824136ec02f596694a15cd1d1f204324564d82f&n=forecast%20Dec%2027.ods
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blanchard replied to the forum topic distribution of CS – meeting notes in the group
Business 5 months, 2 weeks agothx !
b) => no i didn’t see their name at the game co attendees, but i have a call with intenium tomorrow afternoon.
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antoviaque replied to the forum topic distribution of CS – meeting notes in the group
Business 5 months, 2 weeks agoAnother thread I overlooked – my apologies : )
a) As discussed in the chat, yep, it makes sense for Travian – they have a very hardcore audience… Good to have had a chat with them though, can be definitely […]
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blanchard posted an update in the group
Business 5 months, 2 weeks agoI’m starting to upload to our repo some of the contracts we use, for reference. For now, I’ve put on http://git.farsides.com/?a=tree&p=share&h=8e7fd5ab794105ac0e0d420ca279f06545b7ce84&hb=HEAD&f=business/contracts the farsides/bananasoft contract, along with the purchase order prepared by Xavier yesterday.
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antoviaque posted an update in the group
Business 5 months, 3 weeks agoI didn’t look deeply enough to know if this could be a way for us to sell CS, but I just came across it so I thought I would post those there. It’s a series of indie game shops that I hadn’t visited before:
* http://beta.indievania.com/
* http://www.desura.com/
* http://www.gameolith.com/Buy the game there and get a big deck of cards upfront?
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dachary posted an update in the group
Business 5 months, 3 weeks agoAn analysis of the last five weeks of logs from cardstories showed the area where improvement would be most needed. The first is to improve the recurring users ratio (currently 1/100), the second is to ensure that new players always get an opportunity to play and the third is to reduce the number of games that are not completed after being…[Read more]
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Thanks @dachary! Very interesting, lots of food for thoughts.
I’ve put together a spreadsheet that put together the numbers from your blog post, along with the ones we discussed in the chat: http://git.farsides.com/?a=blob&p=share&h=c848e4c7157f9e01020a80a97c47dcc08539032e&n=funnel_cohorts.ods
The three categories identified by dachary are…[Read more]
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Nice work, very interesting, indeed!
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blanchard started the forum topic meeting scheduled with business angels in the group
Business 6 months agoThere will be a Farsides pitch to business angels, with two possible dates :
* Nov 28th, pitch to all french business angels groups (they have a conference on that day and will all be there more or less). Right […] -
blanchard replied to the forum topic Funding leads in the group
Business 6 months agothx ! I’ll try that
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antoviaque started the forum topic Funding leads in the group
Business 6 months agoReposting from the chat : )
(07:23:27 PM) antoviaque: blanchard1: just came across http://gamelab.bocoup.com/ – could be worth seeing if we would interest them
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blanchard started the forum topic cash forecast – update in the group
Business 6 months agoHi, new cash forecast here : http://git.farsides.com/?a=blob&p=share&h=1cc090bcfc04f2fa68aca1f812943f79236477cc&n=forecast%20expenses%20nov%2711%20farsides%20V2.ods
With two scenarios : with and without CNC funding.
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blanchard started the forum topic distribution of CS – meeting notes in the group
Business 6 months, 1 week agoQuick debrief of a discussion with Travian :
* their core business is publishing, not distribution, so they usually go further than the basic revshare model. They don’t think that CS could be a match in their […]
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blanchard started the forum topic partner with a deal maker ? in the group
Business 6 months, 2 weeks agoInteresting meeting today with someone I met through the network of my former school.
He has been a consultant for 20 years, but also helps with deals between start-up and business angels / VCs, using his […] -
blanchard started the forum topic funding – traction for CS, next steps in the group
Business 6 months, 2 weeks agoAfter some discussions with traditional VCs, I got confirmation (and figures that i didn’t have before) that they will want to see traction before seriously looking at an investment. As an average, traction for […]
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blanchard started the forum topic cash forecast in the group
Business 6 months, 2 weeks agoI’ve updated the forecast, currently one scenario with 2 options (with Felix complementary investment and without), it’s here : […]
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tartarugafeliz posted an update in the group
Business 6 months, 3 weeks agotartarugafeliz uploaded new file(s): pikaland_mediakit_apr_2011.pdf to Business
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blanchard posted an update in the group
Business 7 months agoFor Kickstarter, I’m told that the individual in the US will not have to pay taxes given that the donation he receives from the community is transferred it to Farsides. For this he’ll need a contract (to provide to his administration) – the same we’ll need on our side for the french administration, and bank proof of transfer.
Maybe you could…[Read more]-
@tartarugafeliz you had a chance to chat about this with your brother?
Btw @blanchard, how sure are we that he won’t need to pay taxes? To reassure him, what would happen if he ended up having the treasury asking him for taxes? We could set aside some money… Not sure what’s best.
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I didn’t talk to him yet, I’ll send an email tomorrow, I was waiting to see if he was going to show up on skype so I could really talk to him, but if we don’t meet until tomorrow I’ll solve this other way
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Cool, thanks : )
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antoviaque posted an update in the group
Business 7 months agoTwo other links, about the tricks used by VCs – bunch of &$#%#$ btw : )
http://www.theprivateequiteer.com/investor-tricks/ http://www.theprivateequiteer.com/investor-tricks-2/
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antoviaque posted an update in the group
Business 7 months agoA few funding links that are sitting in my todo for some time now : )
Incubators/advices – a few places I think we should consider applying (with either Card Stories or Plebia, both seem to apply well in most places):
* WebFWD: mentorship & contacts from Mozilla.
* HackFwd: Mentorship & funding, European-based. http://hackfwd.com/
* Startup…[Read more]-
thx !
Adding these to my todo.-
Cool !
If you want I can take care of WebFWD & HackFWD, which are heavily insipred by YC.
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great, please do, I appreciate
Let me know if you need help with the financials or whatever part related to the BP.-
Ok!
Not sure when I’ll have time, but maybe after YC if unsuccessful. WebFWD especially could be more aligned with our philosophy.
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In my humble opinion, option 2) is great and 3) is ideal, but 1) would be fine as long as no licensing issues are incurred.
Also, option 1) might be considered a ”foot in the door” for greater involvement in the future, hopefully for mutual benefit!