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Finding Someone To Manage Selling a Software Company?
rrrrw22 writes "My company has spent the last year developing a framework for creating games on Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter. While we had originally planned to release the product to the public and take a percentage of the revenue, we have realized that we can make more money by selling the application to a funded company entering the social gaming space. Our problem is we don't have many other contacts in the social gaming space and would like to find someone to manage selling the company for us (in exchange for a percentage of the sale.) Where can we go about finding someone with the skills and contacts to sell a product like this? What experiences have others had trying to sell a company that we can learn from?"
Its out in public now at http://www.appainter.com/
Actually, we've made quite a bit of money off of several successful games we built on the framework, we just realized that getting everyday people off the internet to build successful game isn't going to work.
We've had severial successful games on the framework, so it is proven:
http://apps.facebook.com/thesummoning/
http://apps.facebook.com/hammerfall/
http://apps.facebook.com/bandbattle/
Total our games have about 6 million users.
It seems that others might be interested in any revenue that is generated
http://mercuralis.deviantart.com/journal/23000665/
And another thing. You are trying to enter a field where MOST of your competitors are CROOKS. Do you really want to be associated with such a label as a "Social Network Game Producer" when those that already are seem to be jumping ship in an attempt salvage what little reputation they retain now the cat is out of the bag regarding the less then savory business practices they've used?
If this link is to be believed, it seems they will be quite at home associating with crooks.