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There was an entertaining documentary made a few years ago about a Finnish mobile game startup called Riot-E. It had little in the way of your actual product, b
by andyking 18y ago
There was an entertaining documentary made a few years ago about a Finnish mobile game startup called Riot-E. It had little in the way of your actual product, but burned through hundreds of millions in bigco funding with a whole host of extravagances before, you guessed it, crashing spectacularly.
Riot On!: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/
- swombat 18y agoYou sure you're not talking about the infamous Gizmondo mobile gaming phone thingy? :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Telematics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Telematics They burned through hundreds of millions too to produce a worthless, inferior handset that no one bought, and had organised crime links and the lot... Incredible that people invest in this kind of company. The fund-raiser must be extremely silver-tongued.