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Positive lessons to be learned from an objective analysis Pincus and Zynga: - Do not mislead, abuse, or harmfully exploit your customers as Zynga did in the ea
by nrb 12y ago
Positive lessons to be learned from an objective analysis Pincus and Zynga:
- Do not mislead, abuse, or harmfully exploit your customers as Zynga did in the early days through tricking them into installing malware or pressuring them into abusing their social connections for in-game currency.
- Do not make exact replicas of competing products and leverage your popularity, financial situation, and legal team to crush them.
- When your company somehow manages to survive despite the previous points, do not claw back the stock options that the people who built your company earned fair and square.
Follow those three points and you just might survive long enough to be the next lucky mobile game startup that Zynga decides to clone verbatim!
- cwyers 12y agoI am reasonably sure those are the reasons why Zynga hasn't gone out of business already, not the reasons they're struggling.