Comments on: Our Very Busy Government Regulators

By: Eating Your Own Dog Food «

Eating Your Own Dog Food « — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:51:20 +0000

[...] new FTC ruling on endorsements, blogging, social media etc. has been dissected, criticized, lampooned, lauded, a storm of discussion befitting its 81 pages of government-ese. For us, it [...]

By: kevin

kevin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:15:53 +0000

Thank you for the response and I will follow up in a private email. I do want to point out that I stated you invested $10 million when I should have correctly stated that you were part of a Series A funding group that put up $10 million. I apologize for inaccurately stating you personally put up the entire amount.

I hold firm to my belief of how Zynga deals wtih customer issues.

By: DaveJ

DaveJ — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:25:23 +0000

And now they are mucking with my Internet connection… sorry about the duplicates.

By: DaveJ

DaveJ — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:18:13 +0000

The shadowy puppet-masters are at it again.

By: sigmawaite

sigmawaite — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:27:20 +0000

Apparently for our financial system, over the last few years the Federal government messed up big time by failing to regulate well.

It appears now that the FTC is regulating badly when they shouldn't regulate at all.

So, we have two cases of government messing up.

I was horrified by some of the things President Reagan said, but his "Get government off your back and out of your pocket" seems to be broadly prescient now.

Broadly a big question is, how to keep government from messing up? From all I can see, some of the best is the Internet and blogs.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:25:48 +0000

Thanks Obama!

By: John Minnihan

John Minnihan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:22:35 +0000

Brad hardly needs me to defend his investments, but I'm compelled to provide a counterpoint here.

I've known Brad for 3 years now (initially I pitched him, but we didn't do a deal) and have since interacted with him in multiple venues, both in groups & one-on-one, as well as in business & social situations. We now characterize each other as friends.

This is material in that I have absolutely nothing to gain by posting here in Brad's defense.

That said, the Brad I know (as defined by his actions, his partners, his associations, his charitable stuff, and his family – hey Stan!) isn't the prick that you're describing.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:45:04 +0000

While I hadn’t thought of that, it’s a logical suspicion.

By: SM2

SM2 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:41:47 +0000

The FTC thing seems like Old Media getting Gov to impose higher barriers to entry and costs to their competition.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:03:09 +0000

I will happily put you in touch with the appropriate people at Zynga to try to resolve your specific issues. Your broad assertions about Zynga are incorrect (including the amount that I’ve invested in the company) – there are a large number of people at the company working incredibly hard to make sure that any customer service issues are resolved. They’ve experienced extraordinary growth and I have enormous respect for the people at Zynga who are working insane hours to delight their customers. If you’d like to talk directly about this, please email me at brad@feld.com