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Marketing Your Video Game Outside of Game Marketplaces & App Stores

FastSpring

At the time of writing, Hi-Rez’s 2014 release SMITE sits at #15 on Steam’s “Most played Massively Multiplayer games” list , with SMITE’s Steam page boasting 40+ million players.) Podcast Full Interview : Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. They were actually aggregate helpful, right?

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Instacart

Andreessen Horowitz

It was April 2014, and the company was raising its Series B. We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. and in 2014, it had the lowest digital penetration of any category. Both offered consumers a ton of convenience through their service.

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The Metric that Matters for Startups in 2016

Tom Tunguz

Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. Imagine regional taxi services, 4 in the US, each with a different app, different labor pools, different terms. ” will be “What are your unit economics?” Market fragmentation.

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Crushing the Pivot: Lessons Learned from a Product Reboot with TaskRabbit (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In 2014, we threw away the entire code base and started from scratch. It may seem like a simple decision, but there is a lot of complexity in a two-sided marketplace where people are expecting to get paid. The marketplace was doing well. In 2008, I founded TaskRabbit. This was a terrifying thing to take on. It was healthy.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. In 2016, André joined Superlógica Tecnologias, a management system designed to service small businesses with a recurring revenue model. Talk: SaaS Crystal Ball: Revenue Performance Metrics.

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GymForLess Uses ChartMogul to Reduce Churn, Enhance Services

Chart Mogul

GymForLess is a desktop and mobile marketplace that gives fitness enthusiasts instant access to thousands of gyms across Spain. Services like this are a natural fit for subscriptions, but that’s not where GymForLess started. Services like this are a natural fit for subscriptions, but that’s not where GymForLess started.

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. Micro Acquire is a marketplace that connects startups to buyers. The marketplace is designed to cut down on the time you need to sell your business and find startups to invest in. Micro Acquire.