Inside Facebook (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... new hub for user-generated social games on the web. Casual Collective: The Bane of Productivity - Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners has invested in a new game development shop called Casual Collective. Learn all about it here.
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
... virtual gifts will make up between $30 and $40 million, citing a report this summer by investor Jeremy Liew. However, sources close to the company have told others and myself that this revenue stream is actually quite a bit higher — more along the lines of $50 million to $60 million . Given that some virtual gifts are also ad campaigns, it’s not clear how revenue is adding up. Costs...
i-wisdom (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
... for these goods will generate $30 million to $40 million this year, estimates venture capitalist Jeremy Liew. - The third leg of Facebook's business may be the most controversial. The company is seriously considering a plan to take a cut of money from the software developers who create applications for the site. Original article "Facebook's Land Grab in the Face of a Downturn", here...
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
... game upgrades and enhancements users can buy for cheap. The Lightspeed funding was put together by Jeremy Liew , who first learned about Preece the way most of us did -- a Desktop Tower Defense addiction. "I spent so many fricking hours on that game," Liew told me. He believes the Casual Collective fits some of the major trends in Web 2.0 gaming -- shorter development cycles...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
... out of the game, and then revise it quickly to hang on to the gamers for a longer session. Jeremy Liew, a partner at Lightspeed wasted a lot of hours playing Desktop Tower Defense and heard about Preece at a dinner. “I wanted to meet the guy who was such a drain on my productivity,” he said. When Preece and Scott said they were starting a game development firm, Liew funded...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
... of 5 percent was the lowest recorded by comScore since it started tracking e-commerce in 2001. Jeremy Liew, a and , said e-commerce to be hit so hard by this downturn because many e-commerce sites benefited from the last downturn. Shoe e-tailer , for example, grew during that period in part because e-commerce sites could buy online advertising more cheaply as ad sales slumped. Mr....
Bits (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
... of 5 percent was the lowest recorded by comScore since it started tracking e-commerce in 2001. Jeremy Liew, a and , said e-commerce to be hit so hard by this downturn because many e-commerce sites benefited from the last downturn. Shoe e-tailer , for example, grew during that period in part because e-commerce sites could buy online advertising more cheaply as ad sales slumped. Mr....
Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... spend in these mainstream categories, and then a much smaller amount in experimental advertising. Jeremy Liew recently referenced a WSJ article on experimental advertising which states that this budget is getting slashed as the recession develops: In recent years, marketers have set aside a portion of their ad budgets to experiment with digital technologies such as Web video, mobile...
