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Founder, Mino Games (YC W11)
1) We have 9,516 Ratings in the US, 19 for a small bug fix we submitted yesterday. (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minomonsters/id477750637?mt=8)
2) We're a free-to-play iOS game, our revenue is through in-app purchases.
Hey, Josh (MinoMonsters CEO) here. Whilst I can't talk on the terms of this financing, we actually raised this round prior to our more successful launch. The money's now being used to accelerate our growth.
Just trying it out now, and i'm loving it. This could be a really handy tool for us.
We're in the W11 batch, and on record as the youngest YC has accepted. I'm 18, and my cofounder is 17 (he hasn't graduated high school yet, which Ron Conway loved!)
I'd totally agree with that point. Nothing above the fold tells me exactly what the app does. Other than that, i'm loving the actual extension.
edit: i think the rapportive website does this great."Get rich contact profiles inside Gmail", rather than something like "Discover the social side to your email inbox". I can instantly tell what I get straight away through this sentence and the large screenshot.
One key difference may be the sheer amount of metrics that Zynga tracks. I've heard they keep stats of every (however mundane) action each user performs. It racks up to a huge amount of data.
In addition, how much further can this story really develop? If there was illegal activity going on, why would any of the parties involved admit to it? Whatever happened, this would have been a huge warning.
I doubt we'll see anything exciting develop, like some people may be expecting.
He said "it included just about every major angel investor in Silicon Valley" - which people can make easy assumptions about who it is.
Props to Arrington for the post. He definitely has integrity, and knows how to write an interesting post.
Facebook released a statement claiming this techcrunch article is inaccurate http://mashable.com/2010/09/19/facebook-we-are-not-building-...
Jason Calacanis had an interesting segment on this on his show. They say $50-100k. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kloJQ0EjgTE
Congratulations paras! Great to see how persistence pays off in the long run.
I totally agree.
Although, the idea also holds its own. It's one of those "wish i'd thought of" ideas that's refreshingly simple.