The Player 2 Podcast — Episode 25: Retro Raiders This month the crew from Player 2 are looking back in time to the appeal of retro gaming and
how current companies are using nostalgia for their own nefarious means.
This month the crew from Player 2 are looking back in time to the appeal of retro gaming and
how current companies are using nostalgia for their own nefarious means.
Not exact matches
Considering that SaaS
companies, in their
current form, are a relatively new phenomenon, it's astonishing to see
how important their services have become to businesses around the world.
To figure out
how to simplify and improve the site's navigation, Carr recommends that the
company engage in «A / B testing,» whereby it serves test pages to a sample group and tracks
how they perform in comparison with the
current site, to see what tweaks reduce the page - count totals.
But the way Nguyen thinks about content and
how it is found, what purpose it serves and why it gets shared, is worth considering for almost any media
company that wants to survive the
current upheaval.
Although it's tough to estimate precisely
how many Googlers were recruited to work at Twitter, and the
company did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this article, some LinkedIn searching and sorting reveals it's pretty clear that those rumors aren't completely unfounded: there are about 250
current employees at Twitter that have previously worked at Google, a healthy percentage of the
company's estimated 1,500 employees.
Instead, set up regular meetings to discuss not only your
current goals, but also
how those goals measure up to your
company's longer - term, big - picture goals.
It grounds your idea in a sense of reality; rather than speculating about
how your
company could fit into the
current market, you'll be proving it.
I decided to bootstrap my
current company because the business model didn't require enormous amounts of capital or extensive research and development — and because bootstrapping made us be more creative and smarter about
how we tested ideas.
Take a close look at the
current factors that support your
company's success (or lack thereof) with that customer, and you can begin to understand
how your
company is filling industry needs.
The legal tussle may well divide the on - demand economy into two camps: the fundamentally sound
companies — the ones that can figure out
how to compete on any sort of playing field, as long as it's level, because they're selling a real innovation — and the
companies that exist only because the
current haze of legal and regulatory uncertainty paired with free - flowing venture capital has permitted them to flourish.
Start by assessing
how you market yourself now, both within your
current company and to the outside world.
The
company said it expects another low single - digit decline in the
current quarter, which it largely attributes to the
company's strategy of cutting ad loads, or
how long commercials run during its shows.
Ask they about their families,
how long they have been with the
company for, where they went to school, and what their
current project entails.
«We are in the process of determining the exchange process for our customers and
how they can replace their
current Note7 as quickly as possible,» the
company said in a statement.
It gives you a
current estimated valuation of your business, one - click reports, and an interactive optimization tool that lets you compare your
company's performance to the competition, test scenarios to see
how various metrics impact your
company's value, and set specific targets to help you reach your goals.
Subtracting the
company's
current liabilities from these
current assets shows
how much working capital (your firm's truest measure of liquidity) is on hand and its ability to pay for decisions in the short - term.
Check the
company's financial report, and examine, if possible,
how many of the employees are not only working on
current product versions, but future iterations as well.
The various areas in which entrepreneurs are susceptible to the confirmation bias include: 1) identifying who the real competitors of the start - up are, 2) methodically and rigorously analyzing what the competition is doing and
how it may affect the start - up, 3) understanding what the
company's
current and prospective customers need and want (it is usually not what one originally thinks), and 4) estimating the resources needed by the
company to achieve its stated goals.
But,
how the
current late - night wars shake out is certainly of interest to advertising buyers and to the
companies that own the broadcast networks selling ad space.
How would you describe the
current operating environment of this
company?
How this applies to corporate life: One of the bits of advice I often give colleagues at my
current company, Porch.com, is to «embrace the red.»
Costolo, Twitter's
current CEO, spent his first six weeks on the job creating and refining the
company's first mission statement — «Instantly connect people everywhere to what's most meaningful to them» — and reminding Twitter employees
how valued they are.
The letter included six points of focus for the
company, including aligning payments with better medical outcomes for patients instead of simply paying for each medical service, which is
how the
current system is built.
Plenty of the people at the Severn plant have come to share the Centenaris» dream of building a big
company — particularly when Paul predicts, as he did at one recent meeting,
how much their stock appreciation rights will rise in value if Atlas keeps growing at its
current pace.
As someone who teaches and advises in the field and has an obligation to keep
current with emerging developments, given the significant rate of change in the last ten years, I could not imagine
how a director of a
company could remain
current without ongoing requirements rather than passing familiarity or osmosis (I am speaking here of directors who have chosen not to upgrade their education).
Through interviews with more than 40 people who have dealt with the hedge fund — including bankers, advisers, board members of various
companies, and
current and former employees of the firm — Fortune has learned previously unreported details that reveal just
how far Elliott will go to win.
«The availability of jobs across industries underscores the need for
companies to evaluate where their talent deficits are and become more strategic about
how they fill these needs, whether that means reskilling their
current workers, offering higher salaries to attract workers, or using data analytics to target talent with the right skills,» Ferguson comments.
Promoting from within also shows
how the
company is growing and leveraging that growth into opportunity for its
current employees.
However, misinterpreting
how a metric applies to your business can fool you into thinking your
company is underperforming, leading you to change course and disrupt your
current success.
Just think of
how many
companies have had to completely re-evaluate their social media goals each time Facebook changes its algorithms — and with the social media giant's
current crisis, who knows what's coming next?
How to deal: If you are happy with your
current role and want to stay at the
company, humor this type of boss.
This process will help you gain insight into your
company's
current identity — or lack thereof — and choose
how it will connect with your business» personality and customers.
Include ideas that you have no idea
how to implement, or that don't fit your
company's
current expertise.
Regardless of the sunk costs, though,
how much more growth can the sector really take when
current prices are telling
companies it would make more sense to shut in mines as opposed to build new ones?
Investor information and terms of the offering: CrowdCheck reviews for consistency in each instance where the issuer
company describes the offering terms, identifies to investors
how the issuer
company reached its
current valuation, and will track and keep in touch with its security holders.
Apple and Tencent are examples of
how even the largest
companies in the world can be significantly mispriced from time to time, and I believe Google and Facebook are also in this camp at the
current time.
Throughout the past decade, there is a high correlation between
how expensive GE's stock is versus
current cash flows and
how much stock the
company repurchases.
I am curious to know what the marketing strategy looks like moving forward and would love to touch on
how [
company] would be able to handle your growth goals compared to a non-scalable solution like [our
current solution].
Her
current research is exploring
how to
companies can optimize value creation for both the
company and community.
We've written earlier about
how that is generally a bad idea (more on that later), but to illustrate our point and in light of the
current retail climate, we thought it'd be a good idea to show you what happens to a store - branded credit card when the
company shuts its doors.
They are examples of
how global outsourcing
companies are using temporary visas to bring in foreign workers who do not appear to have exceptional skills — according to interviews with a dozen
current or former employees of Toys «R» Us and New York Life — to help ship out jobs, mainly to India.
Reporting is what allows you to understand
how your
current efforts affect your
company's success and gives you insight into what you can do to increase your efforts whether it's hiring more salespeople or redistributing tasks.
The recent move by Twitter to verify the students is yet another example of
how big the
current discussion around gun regulation has become, and an example of
how the
company hopes to add credibility to users who are at the center of a debate riddled with misinformation.
It's unclear
how many tokens the
company has sold in its
current or previous rounds.
Rather than forecasting
how fast a
company's earnings will grow, look to estimate the growth rates that are implied by the
current share price.
In this article, we are going to offer some insight into the
current situation of our insurance industry and
how the
current underwriting objectives and finances will affect your
company in 2018.
Much like being able to focus on the details is an important quality, being able to understand
how current operations impact the
company tomorrow, a month from now, or a decade down the road is one of the most important entrepreneurial skills to develop.
Pacific Crest analyst Rob Owens recently took a close look at
how the
current software M&A cycle compares to the previous one, which
companies are the most likely buyout targets and which
companies will be the major buyers...
Companies also use turnover ratios to calculate
how quickly
current assets can be converted into cash in the short term.