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From Maker to Businessperson: Lessons Learned from Becoming a Creative Entrepreneur
This document outlines the journey of an individual who transitioned from being a maker to becoming a creative entrepreneur. It describes how they collaborated with friends on game projects, found a team they wanted to work with at a hackathon, and decided to form a company called Brooklyn Gamery to sell their game Prism Shell. However, they had no experience running a business and faced challenges like delays in a platform launch, a team member leaving, and lack of legal knowledge. The document concludes by sharing lessons learned, such as the limitations of online legal tools, importance of understanding legalese, preparing for problems, asking for help from others, and learning from failures.
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- 1. @cattsmall@cattsmall From Maker to Businessperson LessonsLearned from Becoming a Creative Entrepreneur
- 2. @cattsmall@cattsmall ● Product Designer ●Game developer ● Teacher & event organizer ● Etc. About me:
- 3. @cattsmall@cattsmall I like tomake interactive experiences
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- 5. @cattsmall@cattsmall Went to gamejams Hexapong Teledoor
- 6. @cattsmall@cattsmall At a hackathon, Ifound “the one”
- 7. @cattsmall@cattsmall The team Iwanted to work with!
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- 9. @cattsmall@cattsmall We wanted tosell our game
- 10. @cattsmall@cattsmall We decided to forma company.
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- 12. @cattsmall@cattsmall We had noidea what we were doing.
- 13. @cattsmall@cattsmall We used an onlinelegal solution & got to work
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- 16. @cattsmall@cattsmall A lawyer offered tohelp us pro bono.
- 17. @cattsmall@cattsmall We’re finally goingto release Prism Shell.
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- 19. @cattsmall@cattsmall Lesson 1: Legal websitescan only do so much.
- 20. @cattsmall@cattsmall Lesson 2: The abilityto read legalese is crucial.
- 21. @cattsmall@cattsmall Lesson 3: Prepare forworst-case scenarios.
- 22. @cattsmall@cattsmall Lesson 4: Create marketing& launch plans.
- 23. @cattsmall@cattsmall Lesson 5: Ask forhelp. You won’t be weak – you’ll be stronger.
- 24. @cattsmall@cattsmall Lesson 6: Learn fromfailures – be retrospective.
- 25. @cattsmall@cattsmall Thank you! Questions? Comments? Tweet@cattsmall Email catt@cattsmall.com