Comments on: Crispy Gamer burns employees, CEO and Community http://whatisnoise.com/2010/01/crispy-gamer-burns-employees-ceo-and-community.html On Technology, Social Media, Music, Photography and Life in general Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:43:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-RC2-15172 By: David Fisher http://whatisnoise.com/2010/01/crispy-gamer-burns-employees-ceo-and-community.html/comment-page-1#comment-1624 David Fisher Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:48:15 +0000 http://whatisnoise.com/?p=932#comment-1624 The real culprit probably isn't just the Board of CG, but rather the investors (who probably comprise 70% of the board). 2009 was an outright shitty year for VC funding. It certainly wasn't doing gamerDNA any favors and even though CG got a bit recently I heard they were burning through it like it was kindling. Most of the venture cycle is broken and neither company was actually making appreciable money from day 1. That's hard to do, and bucks much of the initial 'web 2.0' model, but basically if you weren't printing money in 2009, then you weren't getting much for funding. What pisses me off is how CG treated the situation. The zero transparency kinda gets to me. At least be honest with us. They bought gDNA probably with the intention of just running an ad network and firing all their editorial- they just finally pulled the trigger. The real culprit probably isn’t just the Board of CG, but rather the investors (who probably comprise 70% of the board).

2009 was an outright shitty year for VC funding. It certainly wasn’t doing gamerDNA any favors and even though CG got a bit recently I heard they were burning through it like it was kindling.

Most of the venture cycle is broken and neither company was actually making appreciable money from day 1. That’s hard to do, and bucks much of the initial ‘web 2.0′ model, but basically if you weren’t printing money in 2009, then you weren’t getting much for funding.

What pisses me off is how CG treated the situation. The zero transparency kinda gets to me. At least be honest with us. They bought gDNA probably with the intention of just running an ad network and firing all their editorial- they just finally pulled the trigger.

]]> By: Rev. Lazaro http://whatisnoise.com/2010/01/crispy-gamer-burns-employees-ceo-and-community.html/comment-page-1#comment-1623 Rev. Lazaro Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:18:38 +0000 http://whatisnoise.com/?p=932#comment-1623 Sonofabitch! Way to drive a coffin nail into what used to be one of the most rocking Gamer communities like, ever. There was a time a lot of us were passionate about GamerDNA, myself being one. A lot of us I've noticed have felt the site has gone bland, slow, and a bit of a ghost town. We all keep in touch via Twitter or elsewhere, but still..... Now I see the crispity, crunchity disgusting side of what went down. Bummer. Sonofabitch! Way to drive a coffin nail into what used to be one of the most rocking Gamer communities like, ever.

There was a time a lot of us were passionate about GamerDNA, myself being one. A lot of us I’ve noticed have felt the site has gone bland, slow, and a bit of a ghost town. We all keep in touch via Twitter or elsewhere, but still…..

Now I see the crispity, crunchity disgusting side of what went down. Bummer.

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