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Read more...Today's Entrepreneur is Neil Young.
Neil Young is an entrepreneur and an angel investor and is currently working on his next Venture.
He was the CEO and founder of ngmoco, creator and publisher of games exclusively for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Ngmoco was acquired by DeNA for $404m in 2010. Neil is also an angel investor. He typically invests in about $50,000 to $100k to 5 companies in a year. His areas of interest are consumer internet, enterprice software and mobile companies.
Neil gave a keynote at one of our Vator Splash events in San Francisco. He holds the record in having the funniest (yet inspiring and insightful) keynote at a Splash event. Check it out here: ngmoco's Neil Young: "Don't be a pussy"
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I am a(n):
Entrepreneur
Companies I've founded or co-founded:
ngmoco
If you are an entrepreneur, why?
Big things need to be done.
What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make?
Overthinking it.
What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?
1. Simplify
2. Be obvious
3. Execute
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LLL Capital is the investment entity of Neil Young & Robert Stevenson, founders of ngmoco. LLL Capital invests in early stage companies with a specific focus on mobile.
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ngmoco are creators and publishers of mobile games such as We Rule(TM), We Farm(TM) and GodFinger(TM) for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
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Working on next project. Founded ngmoco in 2008, 25+ Top 5 Apps, first company to have top grossing free-2-play iOS titles & Plus+ Social Network became Mobage West.