(keitai-l) Re: RIOT-E goes belly up

On my opinion, that would be the most stupid approach, which has quite
unfortunately been adopted by many of the companies - to their downfall.

Saying "concentrating on mobility" and meaning doing products for the whole
variety of devices and technologies is a same thing that saying an
advertising company should concentrate on paper, and meaning they should
start publishing magazines and deliver mail.
There is absolutely no synergy regarding production, marketing nor sales. On
the contrary, such claim will exhaust the resources of all but most major of
the companies, leaving them with unfocused marketing message, scattered
portfolio and finally an empty cash register.


With best regards,
Sampo Raudaskoski



----- Original Message -----
From: "Olivier MARTIN" <martin@anoria.com>
To: "Ben Sawyer" <bsawyer@dmill.com>
Cc: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 4:36 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: RIOT-E goes belly up


>
> 19/03/2002, 15:09:27, Olivier writes :
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> There will be more if they don't enough capitalize that they should
> diversify their activities, not only focus on mobile, but on "mobility"
> Entertainement, i mean handheld entertainement devices (PDA / GameBoy
> Advance / J2ME / SMS...). Its one key factor to evolve the mobile
> entertainemet business and benefits economy scale to deploy & having
> valuable entertainement portfolio either for mobile operator or
> entertainement agregator (like ludigames / gameloft / picofun... ).
>
> Regards
>
> Olivier
> martin@anoria.com
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>
> Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 5:58:29 PM, you wrote:
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> BS> I suspect there will be more.  Typically with markets like this the
> BS> first mover developers who are VC backed never really make it to a
> BS> public offering.  They usually get bought out by larger companies in
the
> BS> industry and at this point given their capital expenditures for new
> BS> console development no publishers around are really going to dump big
> BS> change into wireless for a while which means the prospects of larger
> BS> scale acquisitions is nill and with no true exit strategy why would
> BS> anyone want to push forward another round of financing.
>
> BS> - Ben Sawyer
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> BS> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 5:12 AM
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> BS> Subject: (keitai-l) RIOT-E goes belly up
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> BS>         The inevitable seemed to have happened:
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> BS>         http://www.riot-e.com/press/content_pressreleases.html
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> BS>         the lesson? It is not enough just to make flashy deals
> BS>         on rights to use spiderman pictures.
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