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alexis bonte's Blog

Alexis Bonte (33) is the co-founder and CEO of eRepublik Labs. eRepublik one of the top 25 European start ups according to TechCrunch is transforming the way strategy games are created, distributed and played by leveraging the power of communities and the Web. erepublik.com its first massive online social strategy game, is set in a mirror version of the real world and launched in November 2007. Erepublik.com has over 250.000 active citizens, 7 million monthly visits and was a prize winner in the LeWeb3 start-up competition in 2007 as well as the TechCrunch FOWA competition in 2008. Prior to Erepublik, Alexis was with lastminute.com for 6 years right up to its 1b$ trade sale to Sabre in 2005 – first as Head of Business Development (UK) then as Marketing and Sales Director (France) and then as Managing Director (Italy). Alexis is also an angel investor specializing in Internet start ups. He is the non-executive chairman of the video and music centered online community trilulilu.ro, the n’1 Romanian website and is a board member of various Internet and health-care companies. Alexis holds a BA Honours Degree in International Business & Languages from the European Business School (London), is a sailing national champion (Portugal) and is fluent in 5 languages.

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Comment In: GDC: VCs Talk Devs 'In Denial', Industry's Social Future [News - 03/09/2010 - 06:47]

One thing the panelists say ...

One thing the panelists say they've yet to see accomplished is a major game that's inherently viral by the nature of its mechanics -- not a game that spams friends or is Facebook oriented, but makes users require their friends' involvement in order to play, and requires or results in ...

Comment In: Former EA Exec Lasky: 'EA Is In The Wrong Business' [News - 01/13/2010 - 06:40]

Hum Mitch has been wrong ...

Hum Mitch has been wrong before, I actually remember when at benchmark over 1 year ago he told me that eRepublik would interest 250.000 people at most we just announced our millionth user : . Still he has a point about EA's strategy and the industry in general. There is ...

Comment In: The Most Anticipated Games Of 2010: PC And MMO [News - 01/07/2010 - 08:35]

100 agree with all of ...

100 agree with all of Anatoly's comments. And to be honest most of free to play games press releases are simply ignored by the gaming press. I would know since with eRepublik we have had coverage from every single national newspaper in Europe and many in the USA, the big ...

Comment In: Zynga and the End of the Beginning [Blog - 12/18/2009 - 07:45]

I agree with much of ...

I agree with much of the analysis, but lets not forget that social games companies such as Zynga have built a huge head start and I don't 100 buy the fact that they won't be able to go for more depth of content, particularly with their hiring power, treasure chest ...