I Am the Cheapest Bastard In Indie Games
When it comes to pricing, your product should be cheaper than high-quality alternatives (people love telling their friends about a new, cheaper, product they discovered). However, your unit economics need to make sense: Don’t sell them a 1$ product for 50 cents!
Imad El Fay • You don’t need a better product to succeed in D2C
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If you’re lucky, you may be able to get away with building almost nothing. If you’ve solved a true pain point for real people, they won’t fault the simplicity of your offering but appreciate you for it. Some will even ask to pay. This is the exciting part: You made your first dollar on the internet. You crossed the great divide from zero to one. Yo... See more
Sahil Lavingia • The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
But this opens up an important question: certainly important to me, because my ability to feed my family depends upon it. If I turn my art into a gift… how do I live? Of course this is not my unique, personal problem. It’s not even a new problem. It’s the universal problem faced by all artists, throughout history.
theeggandtherock.substack.com • I Wrote a Story for a Friend - By Julian Gough
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Recently I met with Bill Ivey, the former chairman for the National Endowment of the Arts. He told me that we sometimes think the alternative to the Starving Artist is what he calls the Subsidized Artist, but that’s the wrong way to think about it. Art needs money. We can deny it all we want and pretend starving makes for better art, but starving o
... See moreJeff Goins • Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age
The way to wealth is to be exceptionally good at something. If you are thebest at whatever it may be, people are going to pay you well and thatvalue can’t be destroyed by inflation. Nobody can take away your talent.
Guatam Baid • Five biggest takeaways from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger’s Berkshire Hathaway annual meet
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While the work will feel fun, challenging, and game-like, the consequences will be real. Money won and lost in the game will be real currency, and real products will be delivered to real customers. That said, Business-as-a-Game is only possible in a world of relative abundance, where basic needs are met and we can afford to spend more time on creat... See more
Packy McCormick • Secure the BaaG
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