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Rocks in the Rocket Science Lobby
In 1994 Rocket Science Games was the only video game company with a rock in its lobby. We had moved our game development facilities from Berkeley and Palo Alto and consolidated into one building on...
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Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid
Sometimes faith-based decisions can be based on too much faith. Entrepreneur-in-Residence After SuperMac I had been approached by one of our venture investors to be an entrepreneur in residence (EIR),...
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Rocket Science 3: Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley
What do you mean you don’t want to hear about features? I was now a CEO of Rocket Science, and having a great time building the company (more about that in future posts.) Unfortunately, while I had...
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Rocket Science 4: The Press is Our Best Product
At Rocket Science while my partner Peter was managing the tools and game development, I was managing everything else. Which at this stage of the company was marketing and financing. Our “Hollywood...
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Rocket Science 5: Who Needs Domain Experts
What Business Are We In? While the Rocket Science press juggernaut moved inexorably forward, a few troubling facts kept trying to bubble up into my consciousness. The company was founded to build games...
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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 1: Are Those My Initials?
In my 21 years of startups I’ve had my ideas “stolen” twice. Once it almost mattered. This is about the time it didn’t. Worries from the garage One of the worries I hear from entrepreneurs (not just...
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You Negotiate Commodities, But You Seize Opportunities
It took losing something important to understand the difference between a commodity and an opportunity. Along the way I also learned yet another way entrepreneurs see the world differently from their...
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VC’s Are Not Your Friends
One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is not understanding the relationship they have with their investors. At times they confuse VC’s with their friends. Lets Go to Lunch At Rocket Science...
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Failure and Redemption
“What’s gone and what’s past help Should be past grief.” William Shakespeare – The Winter’s Tale We give abundant advice to founders about how to make startups succeed yet we offer few models about...
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Entrepreneurs and the early startup team all need to be motivated by a shared vision, passion and desire to build a large company. Yet it’s the company legends that live on. Fund Raising Rocket...
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