Investor Peter Relan wants game entrepreneurs to disrupt consumer markets

Startup adviser Peter Relan, who founded the YouWeb and 9+ accelerators, wants to challenge game entrepreneurs to take their skills and apply them to new markets. He thinks they’ll find good results, because they have lived through the disruption of the gaming business and can apply those lessons to disrupting broader consumer services markets.

Relan set up his new accelerator, 9+, last month and he has broadened his focus from the social game startups that he knows very well to more markets. Now he’s looking at the mobile app, infrastructure, and wearable computing markets. And he thinks that game developers can apply their skills to this new frontier by focusing on what they’re good at.