How Did mig33 Scale in Indonesia? [#StartupAsia Preview]
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Mig33 is one of the largest mobile-only social networks in the world for feature phones users. Out of its whopping 50 million users, a solid half of them originate from Indonesia.This year, we have also witnessed mig33 becoming popular among handset makers, partnering with some of the largest mobile manufacturers in China, India, and Indonesia. If Facebook is the defacto social network, I would call mig33 the defacto social network for feature phone users.While companies are still figuring out how to scale quickly in Indonesia, mig33 looks to be gaining ...
Mig33 Scores in India, App Preloaded on G’Five, Intex, and Zen
Mobile social network mig33 is betting big on emerging markets still using feature and/or Android-based phones. Previously, we learned that it has partnered with 12 Asian handset brands in Indonesia and India.Today, mig33 announced partnerships with three more handset makers in India — G’Five, Intex, and Zen. According to the statement, G’Five is the third largest handset maker in India, falling just behind Nokia and Samsung. Though big in India, G’Five is actually a China-based company.Mig33 is perhaps the largest mobile social network focusing on feature phones. It is ...
The Acheevit Team Talks Work with Mig33, Shares Startup Experience [INTERVIEW]
You might recall Acheevit, a Beijing-based startup working on an interesting B2B sales solution, from our Startups in Asia Singapore event earlier this year. Basically, the company provides real-time performance information and feedback to sales teams by applying techniques from social media, analytics and gamification to increase the motivation for salespeople. We recently sat down with Nicky and Mike from Acheevit at their office in eastern Beijing to learn more about Acheevit, their experience running a startup in Beijing, and their new deal with mig33.In case you can't see the ...
TMG Boasts 3 Million Users, 100x Growth in a Year
If you pay attention to startups in Singapore and Indonesia, you have probably heard about The Mobile Gamer (TMG), a startup that builds mobile games on platforms like mig33, as well as, Kotagames, TMG’s very own platform.CEO and founder of TMG Alvin Yap revealed that his company has so far attracted three million users across all platform and services. Out of those users, 300,000 are monthly active users generating a whopping 100 million page views per month. The service’s growth rate is at a staggering 100x in a year since ...
TMG’s SuperSlank Hits Over 300,000 Gamers On mig33 in 2 Weeks
Building games on Facebook or even Sina Weibo can bring you plenty of users. But TheMobileGamer (TMG) has found success by planting its games on mig33’s 60 million user-strong social platform.Its latest game is SuperSlank, a role-playing-game (RPG) that is playable using feature phones. Within two weeks, SuperSlank became so popular among mig33 users that it saw more than 300,000 gamers already hooked.The gameplay is simple but extremely social. As a hero, you are tasked to bring peace to the Blue Island that has fallen to the bad guys. There ...
mig33 Eyes the Next Billion, Announces Partnership with 12 Asian Handset Brands
Exclusive --- While the growing smartphone market tends to get the most ink in recent years, its important to note that emerging markets represent an enormous opportunity for mobile companies as well. Thus far, Singapore-based mobile social network mig33 has been at the fore of capitalizing on that market, and today it solidified its claim emphatically. The company is informing us that it has signed agreements for its Android and Java mobile apps to be pre-installed on 12 Asian handset brands in India and Indonesia, which are listed below.table.tableizer-table ...
Monster League For Mig33 Released by Agate Studio
Agate Studio has launched its Monster League game on the mig33 platform, where users can play as a professional football coach for free. Within one week of soft launching, Monster League has attracted 10,000 users, 70 percent of them are coming from Indonesia. The remaining 30 percent are coming from regions like Nepal, Bangladesh, and Mozambique.This distribution doesn't come as a surprise since mig33 has 50 million users, with more than 30 million from Indonesia. Besides loving all things mobile, users are very young and very social -- and I ...
Coffee Chat: Raising Capital, Generating Revenue, and the God Damn Exits
This post is a part of our coverage of Startups in Asia (Singapore), Penn Olson’s first tech conference. Our full coverage of the event can be found here, for our RSS feed, click here.Summary Willis chatted with Steven Goh, the CEO and co-founder of mig33. The following is our live blog of their talk.Liveblog#10:45: If you do go down the venture route, you do need to think about what your exit looks like. You want to have a commitment to try to make that happen. But it really comes down to what do ...
Mig33 Adds Miniblog to its Arsenal in Push for Emerging Markets
With over 55 million users to date, Singapore-based mobile social network mig33 is looking to further expand its horizons, today announcing that it’s getting into the microblogging space. The company is rolling out its new ‘miniblog’ service (accessible at b.mig33.com) from the beta stage, and intends to launch it as “the centerpiece of mig33.”The miniblog had a limited release thirty days back, and has accumulated over 300,000 daily active users already. It differs from other microblogging platforms in that it is integrated with the company’s third party games, chat, and ...
Indonesian Gaming Studio Hits Android, iOS, and Mig33 With 2 New Social Games
The Indonesian startup and game developer, NightSpade, is having a busy week, having just released two new games to different markets. The ‘edutainment’ title Komodo Island: Newborn Wonders (pictured above) goes international on iOS and Android, while the social game Gyropet Ranger (pictured bottom) will appear only in selected countries on mig33’s gaming platform.The East Ventures-backed studio - which has a team of 16 people making all its games in-house - is now present on nearly every major platform and app store, having last week put a new game onto ...
Raising Capital, Generating Revenue, and the God Damn Exits! [PREVIEW]
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Steven Goh, co-founder and CEO of mig33, is one of the most talked-about names among entrepreneurs and mobile folks in Southeast Asia. Having experience building his mobile social network empire in both the western and eastern markets, Steven is in a good position to comment on Asia vs Silicon Valley, or specifically on Singapore’s startup environment wearing both his hats. Initially, I wanted him to talk about mig33’s journey at Startup Asia Singapore. But Steven thought that wouldn’t bring much value.Opting out of the chance to publicize or “storify” his ...
BOOST Conference Brings Silicon Valley and Japanese Start-Up Expertise to Indonesia
The BOOST Conference, which aims to help existing local start-ups grow and mature as scalable companies in the future, is heading to Indonesia, bringing Silicon Valley and Japanese expertise to entrepreneurs in the country. The conference, which will be held on January 17th to 18th, 2012, at the InterContinental Jakarta MidPlaza, will bring speakers such as Dave McClure (500 startups), Tetsuya Mizuguchi (ex-producer of Sega Rally), Brent Hurley (YouTube co-founder), Nils Johnson (Y Combinator), Jameson Hsu (Mochi Meida), Jia Shen (RockYou Asia), and Steven Goh (mig33).At the BOOST event, Indonesian ...
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