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Gambling on Facebook Games, Zynga Cashes In
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Zynga Game Network, which makes free poker, puzzle and other games for social-networking Web sites, has attracted backing from heavyweight investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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Social Gaming Firm Zynga Gets Its Big Round; $29M From KPCB; Buys Fbook App
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-social-gaming-firm-zyng...Social Gaming Firm Zynga Gets Its Big Round; $29M From KPCB; Buys Fbook App By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Jul 2008 11:00 PM PST Just when Fortune did a long story on Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers not investing in the Internet and Web 2.0 world
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Doubling Down
http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/2008/07/doubling_down.htmlFred Wilson - my friend and co-investor in Zynga - titled his post on Zynga's $29 million financing Raising The Stakes so I couldn't resist titling my post Doubling Down.ÃÂ And I'll echo what Fred said - I'm amazed with the hand that Mark Pincus (Zynga's
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Raising The Stakes
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/07/raising-the-sta.htmlIt always amuses me that our portfolio company Zynga got its start with Poker. Because as I always tell Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of Zynga, he's playing this hand pretty well. And Mark seems to like the hand he's got right now because Zynga has just
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Raising The Stakes
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/07/raising-the-sta.htmlIt always amuses me that our portfolio company Zynga got its start with Poker. Because as I always tell Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of Zynga, he's playing this hand pretty well. And Mark seems to like the hand he's got right now because Zynga has just
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