JamLegend: A Postmortem On The Company That Zynga Bought – with Andrew Lee

Andrew Lee, JamLegend, Failure, Scaling, Sell Your Business

Today we’re featuring and interview with one of the first entrepreneurs that I ever interviewed.

We’re going to catch up with him and find out how he built his business. We’re going to find out what happened after TechCrunch put his business in the dead pool and what happened when he moved on to Zynga. The guest is Andrew Lee, the founder of JamLegend, which used to let you play a rocking guitar game online for free.

When they closed, the team was hired by Zynga. I invited him to return to Mixergy to talk about what happened, tell the story and to tell us what he learned along the way.

Andrew Lee

JamLegend

Andrew Lee is the founder of JamLegend, which let you play a rocking guitar game online for free and was recently acquired by Zynga.

 

Andrew: Coming up, one of the things that all the books behind me have in

common is they believe in only studying success and I’m sure you’ve [??]

down the books in your bookcase and in your Kindle. Well today we’re going

to study both success and setback. That and so much more coming up. Stay

tuned.

First, three messages. Who’s the lawyer that founders in the Mixergy

audience trust? Scott Edward Walker of Walker Corporate Law. Have you seen

what Chris Pritchard posted on my Facebook page? His new company’s

incorporation pages that Scott Edward Walker helped him get. Scott Edward

Walker is the lawyer that publications like Forbes trust. Go to

walkercorporatelaw.com.

Next, when my friend had to close her company’s office but still wanted to

give callers the impression that all her employees work well under one roof

together, what service did she use?...

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