{"id":8176,"date":"2013-07-12T16:04:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?p=14713"},"modified":"2013-07-12T16:04:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:04:23","slug":"predict-cloud-revenue-with-this-one-simple-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/predict-cloud-revenue-with-this-one-simple-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Predict Cloud Revenue With This One Simple Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all seen the ads touting &#8220;one simple\/crazy trick&#8221; to lower your insurance (or weight, or electric bill, or whatever). Now GigaOm has it&#8217;s own variant for cloud vendors to predict annual revenue:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Just take your July revenue and multiply it by 12.\u00a0 Or if you want to get even trickier, take your daily revenue on July 15 and multiply it by 365.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>They\u2019re both embarrassingly simple, but surprisingly accurate. For a subscription business with a consistent trajectory, it\u2019ll get you extremely close to the ultimate answer \u2013 usually within a couple percentage points.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/07\/12\/a-simple-trick-for-companies-to-accurately-predict-their-annual-revenue\/\">more to it<\/a> of course.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=6ea19d89-4ba3-42a9-818b-eebb3c77565c\" \/><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/lnC-nIIDP-8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&rsquo;ve all seen the ads touting &ldquo;one simple\/crazy trick&rdquo; to lower your insurance (or weight, or electric bill, or whatever). Now GigaOm has it&rsquo;s own variant for cloud vendors to predict annual revenue: Just take your July revenue and multiply it by 12.&nbsp; Or if you want to get even trickier, take your daily revenue [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,1686,1508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-gigaom","category-revenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}