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The State of Gaming in 2022

VC Cafe

billion is attributed to the pending Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard Besides Activision Blizzard, the big deals included Take-Two’s purchase of Zynga, Sony’s acquisition of Bungie, and the ESL and FaceIt acquisition by Savvy Games Group Mobile was the most active segment with 47 deals.

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Virtual Data Room Cybersecurity is the Latest Business Opportunity

The Startup Magazine

During business mergers or acquisitions there’s plenty of research and document reviews. VDR provides the necessary channel through which such companies can survive and launch careful IPO document management and retention. IP Management. Such companies need VDRs to store related IP-documentation.

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The Acquihire Market for Early Stage Startups is Ice Cold. One Better Strategy? Announce You’re For Sale.

Hunter Walker

Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. Those who do, often believe they can hire from the open market without the hassle of an acquisition. of the time my answer is no f **g way].

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Let’s look at years 3-5 of the two companies.

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

The main B2C benchmarks have to do with traction: growth in user acquisition, user retention/churn, monetisation, as well as the effectiveness of consumer marketing + virality. cohort retention curves that flatten (stickiness) actives/reg > 25% (validates TAM). Example of Baremetrics revenue per user benchmarks.

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The Modern Approach To Account Based Marketing

ConversionXL

The book dedicates quite a few pages to the ‘customer-centric stack’ and argues that because you’re now able to know when someone is in the market for a solution like yours [via IP lookup or 1st or 3rd party intent data], you don’t need to “spam” them. Which brings us to our next question: . Is ABM right for you?

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A Complete Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Win Over Your Ideal Customer

ConversionXL

Sales and marketing collaborate until a deal is closed and beyond to secure long-term customer retention. For 90% of companies , the top goal for ABM is new business generation— new clients, new contracts, new logo acquisition, etc. For example, if one new acquisition is worth $10K, a pilot win could be 20 new acquisitions for $200K.