Angry Birds Turns Five: What We Can Learn from the Franchise’s Success

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8 pointsarielm3 comments

temporary success.

The publisher just laid off more than 100 people.

"Don't sit on your laurels". It's not like they didn't have the cash to develop something else.

I don't know if I'd call 5 years "temporary", but considering it all started from a single app it's quite amazing that they're only starting to lose traction (as seen in the main graph) now.

If they're having such a big layoff, I expect the executive staff spent all their revenue on hookers and blow.

I understand that half off all new US businesses fail in the first five years. So they're only doing as good as the worse half.

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