Facebook’s initial crew moving on to new start-ups.
Some of my former facebook colleagues and myself were featured in a great piece by The New York Times on new companies stared by ex-facebook employees.Will be very interesting to see what can of companies the growing number of X-facebookers will create in 2011.
Sesame street – step a side! Here come Baby Juno! I’m very excited to announce that I have joined the Juno Company advisory board. The Juno Company is an amazing little San Francisco based company that is focused creating a fun, witty and engaging musical experiences for pre-schoolers. The Juno [...]
Sesame street – step a side! Here come Baby Juno! I’m very excited to announce that I have joined the Juno Company advisory board. The Juno Company is an amazing little San Francisco based company that is focused creating a fun, witty and engaging musical experiences for pre-schoolers. The Juno Company have already won several Emmy Awards and was founded by classical composer and mom, Belinda Takahashim her husband Adam Adelman.
There are several reasons why I decided to get involved in this company, first of all my kids absolutely love Juno DVDs’ and toys. Second, as a passionate music lover, I was just blown away by Belinda’s beautifully orchestrated compositions recorded by real live orchestras. Juno also have very strong social responsibility program: For every for every Juno product sold through the company’s website, the company will donate a special music education DVD to a child in need through K.I.D.S. as a part of their One-For-All-program. This is a great initiative I’d like to help grow.
I really believe in this team and think that the Juno Company is going to be the next Sesame Street. They are already already killing it retail byt totally taking over FAO Schwartz store in New York, the biggest such launch FAO Schwartz have done for decades, selling nation wide through Buy Buy Baby & Amazon and soon rolling out in Toys-r-Us.
I will be helping the Juno Company with digital and social strategy. And I’m not alone, I am joining a great company of advisors: Brooke Shields (narrated all Juno books), Andrew McCollum (Facebook co-founder), Bernard Gershon (former Disney SVP & GM) Peter Safran (The Safran Company) and Dr. Dorothy Singer (Yale). The great thing is that these are not just passive advisors but very active advisors. The way it should be.
If you are interested in partnering or working with the Juno Company bringing highly engaging musical edutainment to kids, feel free to reach out and I’ll hook you up.
The Chinese Gaming company The9 has invested in AuroraFeint – makers of the OpenFeint platform to bring OpenFeint to China & Android. Very exciting times for Jason & the team. I first got involved with OpenFeint as and advisor last year after I left [...]
The Chinese Gaming company The9 has invested in AuroraFeint – makers of the OpenFeint platform to bring OpenFeint to China & Android. Very exciting times for Jason & the team. I first got involved with OpenFeint as and advisor last year after I left Facebook & have been very impressed by the speed Jason Citron & his team have executed on their vision under the guiding star of Peter Relan, founder of YouWeb who incubated the company.
OpenFeint has over 2,200 live games for the iPhone, and will soon have publishers such as Astraware, Digital Chocolate, Glu Mobile, Hudson Soft and others onboard.
With both Chinese and Japanese investors onboard (the Japanese gaming giant DeNA invested in the company last year) AuroraFeint is set up for a strong future presence in Asia.
Very excited to see how the how the story unfolds.
Disclaimer: I’m a former advisor & a small shareholder in AuroraFeint.
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