Starting from Romania

Cristi Badea

Co-founder MavenHut European Entrepreneurship @ Stanford Engineering

March 9 2015

Which is the most popular Windows

application?

source:    sippycupmom.com  

Solitaire Arena

Nov 2012 Facebook, iOS, android

20M installs

Solitaire Arena

Who plays this game?

source:    wikipedia  

MavenHut

4 games 30 employees

top 5 Facebook game developers

source:    goista.com  

Bucharest  

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Life before MavenHut

MavenHut early days

MavenHut now it’s getting serious

MavenHut today

MavenHut main challenge

Talent

Expertise

Think big

Romania

Romania

the country between Germany and Russia

A few active VC

No angel investors

Extremely tough to raise capital

Huge R&D centers

IT entrepreneurship early stage

Exits: Avangate & LiveRail (2014)

cristi@mavenhut.com