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The State of Gaming in 2022

VC Cafe

The global games and services market is forecast to reach $188 billion in 2022, a 1.2% forecasted decline year on year according to research from Ampere Analysis after two years of massive growth. While mobile game revenue was down 6.6% Mobile games earned $41.2bn globally during H1 2022. year-over-year, downloads were up 0.4%

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

Forecasting is sometimes done by dragging the mouse based on many assumptions, because it’s hard to predict the future. While there isn’t a single magic number or set formula, understanding industry benchmarks can be really helpful to keep a finger on the pulse to measure the health of the company and make more informed forecasts.

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Where is Cloud Gaming headed post Google Stadia

VC Cafe

Last month, Google announced it will be shutting down Stadia , its cloud-gaming service and will refund all customers by January 2023. And what does it mean for the future of Cloud Gaming from here on? The premise of Cloud Gaming. The stakes of Cloud Gaming are high. Cloud Gaming Hiccups. Why did it fail?

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

Setup your Google or Amazon cloud infrastructure. If non-web, build demand creation budget and forecast. Channel incentives – does your product or proposition extend or replace existing revenue for the channel? ——————– Class 6 Feb 8 th Testing Revenue Model.

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

ConversionXL

No, the first 2% is more valuable in terms of revenue. Create a revenue forecast before you even run the experiment. You can forecast what you think your forecast + seasonal curves will look like. You need to track the right revenue goals. Conversion rate is a ratio and ratios are a huge problem.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

For the last 75 years computers (we’ll call these classic computers) have both shrunk to pocket size (iPhones) and grown to the size of warehouses (cloud data centers), yet they all continued to operate essentially the same way. More computing power – AI In the Cloud. Some cloud vendors train on >10TB data sets.