{"id":1277,"date":"2008-06-10T14:56:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T12:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/erepublik-another-global-start-up-managed-from-madrid.html"},"modified":"2008-06-11T16:49:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T14:49:28","slug":"erepublik-another-global-start-up-managed-from-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"Erepublik, another global start up managed from Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erepublik.com\/\">Erepublik<\/a> is a company co-founded by my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexisbonte.com\/\">Alexis Bonte<\/a>, developing a &#8220;Massive Online Social Strategy Game&#8221;, half strategy game, half social network that has now more then 20,000 registered users, while still in private beta. Erepublik is another global start up managed from Madrid by a Non Spaniard or New Spaniards (immigrants like myself), others include <a href=\"http:\/\/tuenti.com\/\">Tuenti<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailybuzz.mobuzz.tv\/\">Mobuzz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/studio.vpod.tv\/\">Vpod.tv<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/meneame.net\/\">Meneame<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/fon.com\">Fon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hipertextual.com\/\">Hipertextual<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Erepublik is played on a accelerated browser based version of the real world (1 Erepublik month is like 4 years in real life). All citizens are real people interacting with each other as politicians, entrepreneurs, soldiers, journalists, etc. Their goal is to develop their own country&#8217;s economy, with politics, business or even war.<\/p>\n<p>The company has just closed a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.erepublik.com\/erepublik-angel-round\/\">new round of financing<\/a> from top entrepreneurs and investors like Brent Hoberman (co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lastminute.com\/\">lastminute.com<\/a> and founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydeco.com\">mydeco.com<\/a>) and Stefan Glaenzer (Executive Chairman of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mendeley.com\/\">Mendeley<\/a> and Chairman of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\">Last.fm<\/a>), along with AGF Private equity (one of the leading French Venture Capitalists).<\/p>\n<p>Send me an e-mail to martin@fon.es if you want to get an invite to try Erepublik.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1277\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erepublik is a company co-founded by my friend Alexis Bonte, developing a &#8220;Massive Online Social Strategy Game&#8221;, half strategy game, half social network that has now more then 20,000 registered users, while still in private beta. Erepublik is another global start up managed from Madrid by a Non Spaniard or New Spaniards (immigrants like myself), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}