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Ask Jason, Will GeekStack Be Jason’s 3rd Angel Investment?

Posted by SRSimko on October 14, 2009 · View Comments 

Ask Jason

TWiST 20

GeekStackPeter Christensen of GeekStack called in with a follow up from the episode 12 Ask Jason segment.  As a reminder Peter is creating a Magic: The Gathering of Science Figures card and online game.

Jason gave Peter two bits of advice in that episode:

  • Consider using 99designs for initial artwork
  • When looking for a Co-Founder try find someone like you that has done this before or at least has more experience.

He took Jason’s advice to use 99designs to get started on an initial card, you can see it here .  As far as finding a Co-Founder goes, he had many calls, Michael a senior at Illinois State stood out.  He is more adept at artwork and will be working on the front end, while Peter is working on the backend code.  Michael will be under some stress to get things accomplished as this is his senior project.

In honor of Jason’s sales episode (iPhone giveaway) Peter has a special offer: anyone who writes a blog post, tweets or signs up for the mailing list and emails him with his address he will send an original Geekstack card to you.

Jason wants an update in a couple weeks, he would like for his nephew to play a beta version provided the review is glowing, he may invest.

Follow up, Part 1

Follow up, Part 2

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  • geekstack
    Great advice! Obviously spreading the word will be a lot easier when there's actually a product and not just vaporware. I'm just surprised and pleased about how involved people want to be, right from the start!
  • geekstack
    Thanks for the writeup Scott! We're really gunning hard now for that glowing review, plus setting up ways for us to keep in touch with the GeekStack fans. Building a community through Twitter (http://twitter.com/geekstack), blog (http://geekstack.com/blog/) and email newsletter (sign up at http://geekstack.com) is a lot of work but everyone has been awesome so far!
  • Peter, yes building a community is tough, a lot tougher than most think. I am definitely not an expert but will offer this advice. Take a shotgun approach to see what platform your community gravitates to (ie. Twitter, Facebook, a Forum, MySpace, whatever kids are using at the moment). Try to develop a plan to release content daily or on a regular basis that benefits the user. For example, I am switching gears here, instead of releasing one large detailed recap, I am breaking the show down into the segments and releasing something daily. It help in two ways it provides continual (short to read) content and it makes the recaps more manageable for me. I think that once you get a marketing plan and launch, building your community will be easier.
  • These are great summaries!
  • I am glad you like my new approach instead of long recaps I am focusing on releasing a segment recap daily. Providing the user with a short easy read summary and helping me manage the workload. I am considering switching the site to a pure TWiST fan site (all things TWiST) my original idea is proving difficult for one person to manage, so I may have to simplify and focus.
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