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A Massive Opportunity to Create Massive Damage Success

January 10, 2012 by Ben Yoskovitz

Massive Damage is the location-based mobile game company that graduated from Year One Labs last year. I’ve written about them in the past. Their first game, Please Stay Calm (a zombie apocalypse game) is killing it with a strong, dedicated user base, fun / addictive gameplay, and lots of cool stuff coming soon. Plus, the […]

Filed Under: Year One Labs

Massive Damage Launches Please Stay Calm in the U.S.

October 13, 2011 by Ben Yoskovitz

Massive Damage is a Year One Labs’ portfolio company, founded by Ken Seto and Garry Seto. The company has just released their iOS game, Please Stay Calm on the U.S. App Store. They’ve been beta testing it with players in Canada for about a month, and now they’re ready for prime time. Please Stay Calm […]

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Time to Whack Some Freaking Zombies

September 8, 2011 by Ben Yoskovitz

No, I’m not talking about killing off zombie companies (although I do think entrepreneurs should do that.) And I’m not talking about real zombies either (although if you see one, please do something about it.) Today, it’s all about virtual zombies in a new location-based MMORPG called Please Stay Calm. Please Stay Calm is an […]

Filed Under: Year One Labs

Please Stay Calm – New Location-Based Game Coming from Endloop X

January 18, 2011 by Ben Yoskovitz

At Year One Labs our first investment was in Endloop X. We haven’t shared a lot of details about the company to-date, but Garry and Ken Seto have just launched their landing page for Please Stay Calm – their location-based game. As you can see from the screenshot below it involves zombies. The guys are […]

Filed Under: Year One Labs

Ben Yoskovitz

Founding Partner at Highline Beta, a hybrid venture studio and VC firm that works with large, ambitious companies to identify new areas of opportunity through internal and external innovation.

Previously I was VP Product at VarageSale and GoInstant (acq. $CRM), and Founding Partner at Year One Labs.

Angel investments include: Breather, Spoiler Alert, SendWithUs and others.

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