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Businesses in Second Life. Who is Linden Lab? Founded 1999 Second Life launched June 2003 Investment ◦First Round 10/04 ($8M); Second Round 3/06 ($11M)

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1 Businesses in Second Life

2 Who is Linden Lab? Founded 1999 Second Life launched June 2003 Investment ◦First Round 10/04 ($8M); Second Round 3/06 ($11M) Board ◦ Mitch Kapor Kapor Enterprises, Inc. ◦ Jed Smith Managing Partner, Catamount Ventures ◦ Bill Gurley Partner, Benchmark Capital ◦ James Currier Founder and President, Tickle, Inc. Philip Rosedale

3 What is Second Life? Virtual world Not a game

4 Second Life Principles Accessible tools User-owned IP Economy

5 Why People Use Second Life Social Network Creation Business

6 Entering Second Life demo

7 Avatars and Appearance demo

8 Clothing and Inventory demo

9 Building demo

10 Collaboration

11 Meetings

12 Simulation & training

13 Customer Research

14 Branding

15 Information Dissemination

16 Retail

17 Retail (web)

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19 Public Relations American Apparel Duran Duran

20 Working with Linden Lab Linden Lab is Hosting Revenue from land sales No content creation services OS client

21 Entering Second Life Plan - outcome, purpose Get or hire skills (developers) Buy land (if necessary) Create community ◦Traffic ◦Engage, interact ◦Start small ◦Leverage ◦Publicize

22 SL is like RL - and it’s not Behavior ◦Engaged, but not constrained Interaction ◦All objects can be scripted ◦No material costs

23 Thank You Second Life.com business pages: ◦http://secondlife.com/businesseducation/http://secondlife.com/businesseducation/ Linden Lab ◦http://lindenlab.comhttp://lindenlab.com


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