{"id":34031,"date":"2021-10-28T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34031"},"modified":"2021-10-28T14:00:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T18:00:44","slug":"acquiring-kaleidoscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/28\/acquiring-kaleidoscope\/","title":{"rendered":"Acquiring Kaleidoscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kaleidoscope.app\/2021\/10\/12\/acquiring-a-product\/\">Christopher Atlan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.kaleidoscope.app\/2021\/10\/12\/acquiring-a-product\/\">\n<p>When an app is transferred to a new owner, the historical revenue data is not transferred. And because it was only recently transferred from Black Pixel to Hypergiant, we had to look for other sources of data to find the trailing twelve months (TTM) revenue, which was needed to have an overview of the app&rsquo;s financial performance.<\/p>\n<p>We weren&rsquo;t able to get all the Kaleidoscope graphic assets. And we had no way of looking up references to issues that were noted in the source code because bug reporting and customer support history were no longer available.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>After reviewing the pros and cons of each option, we ultimately decided on taking out a loan from a bank. We were able to get a six-year term, which provides the freedom to try and make the app profitable.  We have two years to try and make it work. If it doesn&rsquo;t, the six-year timeframe makes monthly repayments manageable in a scenario where we&rsquo;d have to downsize the team.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/07\/kaleidoscope-3\/\">Kaleidoscope 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/22\/kaleidoscope-2-4-1\/\">Kaleidoscope 2.4.1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Atlan: When an app is transferred to a new owner, the historical revenue data is not transferred. And because it was only recently transferred from Black Pixel to Hypergiant, we had to look for other sources of data to find the trailing twelve months (TTM) revenue, which was needed to have an overview of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-10-28T18:00:49Z","apple_news_api_id":"42386536-4538-4583-8138-d678dfaf81e6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-10-28T18:00:49Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQjhlNkU4RYOBONZ436-B5g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66,101,2058,30,32,39,1891],"class_list":["post-34031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-acquisition","tag-business","tag-kaleidoscope","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-11-0"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34032,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34031\/revisions\/34032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}