"It's hard in the beginning being on a new team," he said.
"I feel as though he'll be less likely to be a follower if he starts out from the beginning being different," Ms. Lewis-Gordon, 35, explained.
I probably spent too much time in the beginning being focused on the endgame but not recognizing that, to win the match, you really need to take the time to nurture your team, energize your team and understand what motivates your team.
"From the beginning, being here was all about doing things differently than in McLean," continued Mrs. Russell, whose roster of doing things differently includes buying a live tree and, with the help of her daughters and husband, decorating it with found objects like pine cones, twigs and shells.
If the technical experience was the main resource in the beginning being supplemented by the business planning capability, then the ability to build and manage networks in the post-incubation stage is essential for the development of TBCs' technological capabilities.
"In the beginning, being a successful social games company was about operations expertise, but as the market matures, it's now about the intellectual property and the content," says Atul Bagga, an analyst for games research firm ThinkEquity.
