This Week in Startups - Susan Choe, Founder & CEO of Outspark

This Week in Startups with guest Susan Choe, Founder & CEO of Outspark. Jason Calacanis hosts This Week in Startups. Check out our Sponsors: usrtream.tv http powervps.com 00 Interview - Susan Choe, Founder & CEO of Outspark (outspark.com) 00 Outspark has been operation for 3.5 years and publishes free MMOs to play and people pay for elements and features, the concept has been widely used in Asia and they bring many games from that region. 00:09:30 The idea to actually start her own business came from her time at Yahoo trying to achieve the same thing but decided to go out on her own 00:13:45 What are the revenue expectations when you launch a new game? 10-15% pay $45-50 a month for 4 -- 8 months and media companies are starting to approach them for virtual goods 00:18:30 What is it like being a female CEO? Female CEOs should be judged the same as male CEOs it's all about performance and execution, once guys get over it we all have fun achieving the same results, gender shouldn't matter. 00:20:00 Do you think less women want to be CEOs? Traditionally men do it but Susan finds it fun, people need to give women a chance 00:23:30 VC's do profile and usually go on trends 00:24:00 What is the most important thing for social media games to focus on? 00:27:00 Why are these games addictive? 00:30:00 Will we see these on the iPad? 00:31:15 Will HTML5 be robust enough as a gaming platform? 00:33:45 ASK JASON -- Adam Bunnell -- Built a plan to incorporate videos and college ...

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