The share of Apple’s revenues coming from iPhone sales has been falling over the last two years. Services revenues have been plugging the gap, but challenges are beginning to emerge. Several tech giants have voiced their opposition to Apple’s dominance and especially App Store policies. Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) dependence on iPhone sales has been declining since…
We continue to be stuck inside, and video games continue to sell well. It’s pretty much as simple as that, honestly. I mean, there’s more nuance than that, obviously, but that’s really the top line takeaway from NPD’s June gaming numbers. More specifically, last month saw $1.2 billion total spent on gaming, up 26% from…
Retail sales jumped higher in May as consumers returned to stores as coronavirus lockdowns were lifted across the United States. Retail sales surged 17.7 percent compared with the prior month, according to Commerce Department data released Tuesday, easily beating expectations for an 8 percent gain. Retail sales are now down 6.1 percent compared with a…
Many research reports lead to the conclusion that the majority of marketing and business development professionals are struggling to find quick and efficient lead generation tactics. These reports prove that 23 of these professionals find their lead generation tactic to be “kind of successful”, while the other 13 believed their tactic wasn’t working so well.…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Apple device sales have taken a hit, but the company’s services are doing swell. The iPhone, the longtime cornerstone of the company’s hardware portfolio, hit $28.96 billion in revenue for Q2, down from $31.1 billion from this time last year. The iPad and Mac lines saw drops…
Another startup has turned to downsizing and fund raising to help weather the uncertainty around the economy amid the global coronavirus health pandemic. People.ai, a predictive sales startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Iconiq, Lightspeed and other investors and last year valued at around $500 million, has laid off around 30 people, working out to about…
Walmart stock surged on Friday as the company recorded huge sales in the first quarter. Up 0.5% this year, WMT has comfortably outperformed the broader Dow Jones amid the stock market crash. Unfortunately for Dow bulls, Walmart’s stunning sales are unlikely to continue. Walmart (NYSE: WMT) stock has been an impressive performer in the Dow…
Brian Ascher is a partner at Venrock, where he invests broadly across enterprise and fintech and serves on the boards of several companies, including Personal Capital, 6Sense, Socrates AI, Dynamic Signal, Retail Solutions, SmartBiz Loans, and Inrix. More posts by this contributor Once you’ve found product/market fit, scaling a SaaS business is all about honing…
How and why sales efficiency could help tech startups unlock growth Ryan Floyd is a founding managing director of Storm Ventures, investing in early-stage enterprise SaaS companies, and the host of Ask a VC YouTube channel. Sales efficiency is the best way to understand the economics of a business. To me, it answers the question…
Madden NFL 20 continues its run of success, landing the top spot in U.S. digital PlayStation 4 sales for the second consecutive month. | Photo by Mark RALSTON / AFPMadden NFL 20 topped the charts for U.S. digital sales of PlayStation 4 games for the month of August, making it the best-selling title for two…
