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Is What Epic Wants for App Stores What Other Game Developers Actually Want?

FastSpring

Epic’s outsized voice and the reluctance of other studios to speak up publicly for fear of repercussions from app stores leaves us wondering: Is what Epic wants for app stores what other game and app developers actually want? There were no gatekeepers — just a computer, a player, and a game. But the world has changed.

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Marketing Your Video Game Outside of Game Marketplaces & App Stores

FastSpring

Todd Harris knows how to leverage effective video game marketing strategies to get games in front of players. As the former COO and Co-Founder of Hi-Rez Studios, he spent 15 years making games and marketing them to gamers — with the studio’s games reaching 150 million players. (At

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User Profile: What Is It and How to Create One?

User Pilot

TL;DR A user profile is a collection of details about an individual user: their identity, roles, personal details, or behavior. They may be inspired by a user but they don’t describe one real person. Psychographic data on attitudes, interests, and values allows tailoring products and marketing to resonate with users’ lifestyles.

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Why TestDome Considers FastSpring a Real Partner for Selling Software Online (Plus: Is Using AI Cheating?)

FastSpring

Now as a successful international business, TestDome has been with FastSpring through all of it, and even when other payment platforms launched intriguing new products, Mario never saw a good reason to leave FastSpring. Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your business internationally? Paddle offers it.

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How to Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup with Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

This is the same advice they give YC companies to become much more successful at fundraising when they’re pre-product market fit. The Common Elements of a Seed Stage Pitch The common elements of a seed stage pitch include: What you do Team Traction Unique insights Market size Ask What does your company do? What’s your market size?

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How Dopple Is Defining an Emerging Market

FastSpring

Across markets, companies were “taking big data sets and visualizing them in interesting ways to create user experiences.” When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. Experience is the keyword here. Justin explained.

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SaaS Companies: Four Signs You’ve Outgrown Stripe

FastSpring

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. From testing out plugins to setting up new payment methods, maintaining Stripe can be very time-consuming. I interviewed him live on LinkedIn about four signs that SaaS companies have outgrown Stripe.