jconline.com: For the following year Clauson worked in the sporting goods industry. Then the entrepreneur returned to his roots and started Lafayette Puzzle Factory — creating a variety of puzzles that are sold at retail locations. “Even while working for the sporting goods company, I found myself walking up and down the toy aisles at […]
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The Miami Herald: Eric Poses rolled the dice in 1997, when he founded All Things Equal and took off on a cross-country sales trip in his car. Since then, revenue has grown and he now finds himself in a countercyclical sales boom. Board games traditionally do well during tough economic times. After all, Monopoly was
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This is neat. Do you have an idea for a board game? Check out this company: The Game Crafter is a new company that lets you build your own, fully customized, table-top games. Board games, card games – you name it, there’s a good chance these guys can put it together for you, with fully
Have you ever wondered what goes into making, marketing, and selling an iPhone app? I have. PCWorld has an interview with Joel Rosenberg, the author of an addictive puzzle game for the iPhone called Blocked. Here’s a snippet: PC World: Let’s get the big question out of the way. Will you be able to retire
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Freakonomics: It’s next to impossible to find an economist who will support a gas tax holiday, but cutting the gas tax altogether is an option in Budget Hero, a surprisingly entertaining online game that puts you in charge of balancing the federal budget. Based on budget models from the Congressional Budget Office, Budget Hero starts
Inc.: Justin Yan joined Yale’s army the week he arrived in New Haven, Connecticut, as a freshman last fall. He proved himself first as a spy, infiltrating enemy lines up and down the Northeast. Then he was promoted to commander. “It was all downhill from there,” Yan says. “I was sucked in.” Yan is one
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The Wall Street Journal: Even in a recession, people will still want to be entertained. The Great Depression saw resilience and even growth in movie ticket sales as one of the cheapest ways for people to entertain themselves. As this economy tightens through 2009, we’ll find growing numbers of “time rich-cash poor” consumers seeking today’s
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Naples Daily News: A local inventor and businessman launched a local-based online clue game, Gopher Wit, that is like an online treasure hunt that turns into a race. It’s free to sign up and play, said 44-year-old Kem Gursoy, who devised the game. Three clues are released on the game’s Web site everyday, and each
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CourierPostOnline.com: In the era of Nintendo’s, Playstations and thousands of computer games, kids are continuing to get lost in a world of fantasy and violence, and experiencing disconnect from their families. One Pennsylvania father decided to do the unthinkable, design and develop an educational board game to make mathematics fun. Flashcar, the brainchild of Matthew
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TheDestinLog.com: Until this year, Debby Pozza didn’t know how competitive marketing a new game could be. “It’s very intimidating,” Pozza, the creator of the card game Foto Feud, told The Log about attending an industry convention in Los Angeles. “There are over a thousand games invented every year … It’s very difficult to break through
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