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What’s the lifetime value of an ad-funded gamer?
Exent is a business that makes money in an old world of gaming. They’re not focused on fighting against the free-to-play virtual goods business models of Facebook and browser-game companies like Bigpoint. They are still trying to...
- Posted 14 years ago
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50 questions: What is product/market fit, and why does it matter to your startup?
Here’s the most important thing to remember: Startups are not mini-corporations. A corporation exists to execute on a business model; a startup exists to find a business model.
- Posted 14 years ago
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Why do AAA console developers find making social games so hard?
I am a big fan of Steve Blank. He teaches entrepreneurship at Berkeley and Stanford and wrote Four Steps to the Epiphany. In his most recent blog post, he attempts to answer the question: “Should an entrepreneur...
- Posted 15 years ago
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Guardian profoundly misses the point about FIFA Online
Oh dear. The Guardian has gone and got me all steamed up. Normally, that’s the job of the Daily Mail. In a blog post this morning entitled EA unveil … Fifa Farmville?, Guardian blogger Jack Arnott reports...
- Posted 15 years ago
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Online game design: which of the three business models will work for you?
Do you really understand the business model of your online game? Are you focusing on it with laser-like precision? If not, you may be wasting time and money on dead-end strategies. A recent article on Venturebeat got...
- Posted 15 years ago
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Dungeons and Dragons Online goes free
Turbine has just announced that Dungeons and Dragons Online is about to change its business model. It’s moving from being a traditional subscription based MMO where users pay $14.95 per month to being a game that anyone...
- Posted 16 years ago