Hi, I had a meeting this morning with Alexandre from Montreal International, an organization -mentioned here before- that helps companies start in Montreal.
In a nutshell : if we confirm the creation of the subsidiary for Q2 2011, and given that the process for visa and incorporation is pretty short, we could start the process in feb' 2011. This could be a good date also because the yearly venture capital forum for Montreal happens at that time, so we could go there - Alexandre offered to connect us to some VCs over there - to meet these people and start the process of incorporation at the same time. Alexandre also gave me some details on the incorporation process and gave me more information on the game industry in Montreal (overview of studios and some contacts), I'll add these on the wiki when I have a little more time. Thx D PS : Not related, but short note that I add here. I met Arnaud today, who is executive producer at Mimesis Republic. He offered to give some feedback when we have a prototype - he can also help us on subsidies process such as the FAJV by reviewing our docs, when we go for this. And, because he collaborated on the fund raising of Mimesis, he had some interesting insights on relation with investors. One thing regarding the pitch that could be useful to us in the short term : I was wondering what approach to follow when it comes to describing the game to investors (how much to focus on the content), and Arnaud made an interesting point : of course investors are basically interested in acquisition, churn, and ARPU. But they hear this all day long, with the same kind of benchmark each time. So a relevant way to describe the content of the game is to relate it to these parameters, letting us simultaneously describe the kind of game and proving why we believe in our business model. In other words, how the positioning and mechanics of the game can sustain the acquisition/retention/Arpu could be a good way to present things on our pitch document. I'll try to work on that for the next meeting. _______________________________________________ Farsides mailing list - [email protected] Wiki: http://farsides.com/ List: http://farsides.com/ml/ Forum: http://farsides.com/forum/ Ideas: http://farsides.com/ideas/ Chat: http://farsides.com/chat/
