I told you that this wasn't my first foray into entrepreneurism, so here's the history lesson. A few years ago, three friends of mine and I had the crazy idea of starting up our own gaming store. We met a couple times to product lines, competitions, the amount of space needed and generally attempted to flesh out the concept. I'm not sure what the cause was but the whole thing crashed and burned. Out of all my friends, I believe I carried the torch the longest. I developed a business plan, did copious amounts of research, contacted vendors for pricing, and my wife and I toured several properties. In the end, the overhead was simply too high to sustain the business model we had chosen.
That was around 8 years ago during what I saw as the beginning of the end of brink and mortar gaming stores. More and more stores were moving their product lines onto websites and closing down their physical stores while most seemed to be going out of business all together. So I took a hint, dropped the plans and fell back on my preordained profession in chemistry. My Navy service and strong background in chemistry have served me quite well to this day. However, it is not where my heart truly lies. So to reiterate those famous words uttered in Shakespeare's Henry V, Act III:
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more"
The Grand Plan as of now
- Research downtown area
- locations
- lease rates
- square footage
- Conduct surveys
- Online
- Flyers
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