Talk by Cristi Badea, Co-Founder - Mavenhut Games (RO), at Stanford on March 9 2015, in our session on 'Romania & Bulgaria :: Gaming Startups & Venture Capital'. Website: http://www.StanfordEuropreneurs.org YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordEuropreneurs Twitter: @Europreneurs

1. Starting from Romania
Cristi Badea
Co-founder MavenHut
European Entrepreneurship @ Stanford Engineering
March 9 2015

2. Which is the most
popular Windows
application?

3. source:
sippycupmom.com

5. Solitaire Arena
Nov 2012
Facebook, iOS, android
20M installs

6. Solitaire Arena
Who plays this game?

7. source:
wikipedia

9. MavenHut
4 games
30 employees
top 5 Facebook game developers

10. source:
goista.com
Bucharest

11. 4me
to
listen
to
our
story

12. Life before
MavenHut

13. MavenHut
early days

14. MavenHut
now it’s getting serious

15. MavenHut
today

16. MavenHut
main challenge

17. Talent
Expertise
Think big

19. Romania

20. Romania
the country between Germany and Russia

21. A few active VC
No angel investors
Extremely tough to raise capital

22. Huge R&D centers
IT entrepreneurship early stage
Exits: Avangate & LiveRail (2014)

23. cristi@mavenhut.com