Saint Paddy's Day Special for you Social Game Hard-cores!
RSVP: http://ertsocialgaming.eventbrite.com/

We are so excited to making our March event a real gem on Social Gaming. From the recent strings of Merger&Acquisition activities in this industry, where the big fish are chasing after the small fish, can we make sense of where it's leading to? Facebook is playing the house... [read more]

Saint Paddy's Day Special for you Social Game Hard-cores!
RSVP: http://ertsocialgaming.eventbrite.com/

We are so excited to making our March event a real gem on Social Gaming. From the recent strings of Merger&Acquisition activities in this industry, where the big fish are chasing after the small fish, can we make sense of where it's leading to? Facebook is playing the house with its Facebook Credits and big guys are gobbling up small shops like "all you can eat lunch", while Google is staffing up full steam to code their own games, what's left for the small game developers?

Hear the stories directly from our A-list speakers who have been there, done that, and an industry analyst who has seen it from the box seat. [No panel. Purely speaker-format.]

::MARK ROSE Sold SpareChange to Playspan, which was acquired by Visa, March, 2011.
::MAX SKIBINSKY Sold Hive7 to Playdom in 2010, which was acquired by Disney afterwards.
::ATUL BAGGA, Senior Equity Research Analyst at ThinkEquity covering Gaming industry

Agenda:
6:00 - 7:00 pizza, networking (get yourself plenty of time to meet every one!)
7:00 - 8:30 Mark Rose, Max Skibinsky, Atul Bagga, special guest speakers
8:30 - 9-ish, Round-the-Table, you are the star!
9:00 - more schmoozing

::MARK ROSE, VP Product, Visa (also functions as Janitor and ERT groupie)
Mark started building apps on Facebook in early 2007. Mark's first app ScoreMe got a million users but didn't monetize well. Mark then co-founded SpareChange which was a micropayments solution on Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. SpareChange was acquired by Playspan in 2009, which was acquired by Visa recently in March of 2011. Mark has over 15 years experience in product management and consumer financial services including PayPal, E*TRADE, Yodlee and HedgeStreet. Mark is a consumer experience zealot, drives decision making from analytics, and loves inventing new user experiences...

::MAX SKIBINSKY has been 15 year veteran of Silicon Valley. He bootstrapped his first consulting startup in 90ties, working with clients such as Netscape/AOL, Celera Genomics and Electronic Arts. After years of working inside many startups and few bigger companies Max jumped into world of web 2.0 innovation, social networks and online communities. He founded Hive7, one of the very first social gaming startups which in following years redefined the world of traditional entertainment. In 2010 Hive7 was sold to Playdom which in turn was sold to Disney few months later. When not designing, recruiting, brainstorming, advising, and building startups Max can be found flying in general vicinity of Palo Alto airspace.

::ATUL BAGGA, Senior Equity Research Analyst covering Gaming industry at ThinkEquity. Regularly presented at a number of gaming industry conferences, Atul is widely quoted and interviewed on TV and print media such as Economist, New York Times, Time, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNN, and USA Today. Atul received his MBA from Haas School of Business at University of Berkeley, Masters in Management from University of Bombay and Bachelors in Engineering from National Institute of Technology in India.

This event is generously sponsored by our friends at the Pillsbury Law Firm, who provide top services and expertise to tech entrepreneurs among other specialties. Benjamin Wiles and his colleagues will be available for consultation.


Your ERT organizer

Shirley Lin
Founder, Chief Player,
YoXi123 - creator of Huggy Hearts app on Facebook