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Which Location Has the Most Receptive Investors for Startups?
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 3:04pm | 460Listen up, entrepreneurs. This could be critical to the future of your startup. When launching a new company, young entrepreneurs tend to require the same key ingredients: a smart founding team, a stellar group of employees, and more than enough capital to survive the early months/years. The first...
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How Does it Feel to Sell a Startup for $800 Million?
Friday, January 20, 2012 - 2:12pm | 575A serial entrepreneur tells Benzinga what it's like to build a startup that soared to nearly $1 billion in value. Fourteen years ago, Greg Borrud left his job at Activision (NASDAQ: ATVI) to found a game development studio of his own. It was a risky move, no doubt. While the video game industry...
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How Can a Startup Get Funded?
Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 11:43am | 697“I think we got pretty lucky with our funding experience,” said Seismic Games' CEO and co-founder Greg Borrud. “From the day we decided to start to raise funds to the day we closed was about four months. And we had never raised funds for a company before.” Borrud's new startup recently announced...
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Five Startup Tips from Seismic Games Co-Founder and CEO Greg Borrud
Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 11:27am | 557Prepare to eat, sleep and drink your business. That's just one of the many recommendations from Greg Borrud, co-founder of Pandemic Studios and the co-founder and CEO of Seismic Games. Borrud, whose own startup raised $2 million in Series A funding, provided Benzinga with five tips for aspiring...
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Seismic Games Scores $2 Million to Produce "Next-Generation" Social Games
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 10:45am | 789The free-to-play game developer has acquired $2 million in Series A funding. The LA-based company, which promises to create “high-quality, next-generation social games franchises,” received the new funds from DFJ Frontier (a DFJ Network partner fund) and Tom Matlack, which the company said is a “...