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July - 2006 - issue > Entrepreneurship
Mobile is Your Stadium
Sanjeev Jain
Combine the ubiquity of mobiles with their multiple usages and you can see why and how the company’s co-founder and President Arish Ali has led Skava from a startup to a successful and profitable company. And this success was achieved with a vision of connected mobile data applications while not raising a single dollar from the Venture Capitalists.
Ali’s company has always been at this interjection developing a few widely played and downloaded network aware mobile games like Cricket, Domino, Spades and Sudoku. So when someone downloads USA Today Sudoku puzzle game onto his or her mobile phone, be sure that Skava developed it. Puzzles account for nearly half of all free mobile game downloads, and over a quarter of all mobile gaming revenues.
According to IDC, U.S. revenues from mobile games will rise to $1.5 billion in 2008, from $600 million in 2005.
But Ali’s interest, nowadays, is taking the next step up beyond games. In business terminology he wants to move up the ladder by selling to people non-games based services.
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