OpenFeint

“TechCrunch covered it, and we got a couple hundred People who signed up on the mailing list. And so we actually took that mailing list and went out and raised a seed round of funding. And then we spent the next three months building and launching to launch the…”

“Free-to-play games kind of had less of a need for Openfeint. And we were also competing with Apple, and now Google at this point.”

“We raised money from a couple of strategic investors, but actually no Sandhill VCs invested in that company.”

“After like three or four months, you know, they asked me to step aside and basically like, we're going to take the business in this direction. And so I left.”

“Like, I think we could have had a really good small to mid-sized business if we had focused on that game, but from the experience I had building Openfeint, I knew that, like, we, I had these powers that I could use to have positive impact on, like, tens or hun…”

“Very quickly we actually realized that that was not a great business model, and so we just made it free for initially, and we never really figured out how to make money off of it, frankly.”