Topic: Devtome Brick and Mortar (Read 6592 times)

Fin he isnt making up problems he is trying to cover his bases from an investment perspective it looks like he knows what he is talking about you should work with him in solidying the idea and it will a step closer to reality. Face it noone knows your ideas better than you so you thenonly one that can make it happen. You announced it now you got people curious turn it into a reality. Id be curious to see what you can come up with!

I'm not trying to diss him at all. I'm trying to instill a sense of reality. Investors want coherent business plans.

FinShaggy is clearly passionate about his ideas, and has created many threads about the same topic. But his time would be better spent if he actually developed these ideas. Sure, we can provide references on how to write a good business plan, but we can't do it for him.

This is because it's his own idea and we don't share the same vision and understanding as him. I'm not too entirely clear about what his visions for a brick and mortar store would be and how he intends to incorporate gaming and publishing together, so it's best if he does it himself.

His idea may be good or bad, but they need to be well thought out or else it can't really be taken serious at all.

Judging from this thread and how his ideas just seem to pump out of nowhere, it seems that this essential process hasn't been undertaken yet.


Before anyone invests into any project, they need to see a plan with financial projections and estimated break even points as well. Without giving us this information, this project won't go past the contemplation stage and if multiple threads with the same information are posted without any further development, then it will be considered spam.

But if you want my opinion, here's the problem that I see. You have many different ideas - all of which will take an enormous amount of effort and hard work to successfully implement. You mention all your goals - "such as a restaurant that will franchise nationally". You also mention that "it will do well because people need to eat". The issue is how are you going to achieve this? You have your ideas, but you do not tell us how or what your strategy is. Creating a national franchise its not a simple task, even restaurants that were backed by Steve Ellis (founder of Chipotle), Bobbly Flay have failed (I'm talking about the reality show America's Next Great Restaurant). What is your secret that makes you so much better than a restaurant that was publicized on national television with successful restaurateurs and chefs backing it?

Focus on one idea and work out the logistics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxuPoed0H7E

You're making up non existent problems. Devtome editors exist, and they can take care of that.

Also, in order to make the DevtoMe submissions suitable and worthy for publication, you would have to have some sort of editing process and verification of the information, especially if it is non fiction. So basically, you need some editors. Are you going to edit the articles yourself or are you going to pay for editors to edit the submissions since as far as I know, DevtoMe has no quality control process.

I think you will get more people to buy in the idea, if you write a coherent business plan with the details lined out so that we will be able to see whether or not it is a good idea to invest.

I just don't understand the reason why you would do a brick and mortar. There are way too many overhead costs involved, such as utilities, taxes, and maybe rental fees for your property. This will eat away at your profit.

Isn't it better to make an online platform because you eliminate these overhead costs and since it's online you can attract many more writers compared to the local writers at whatever place you choose to build the brick and mortar.

you got a lot ideas so far
any working out yet?

What's the market for this? And why would people go to this as opposed to a library? Or use this versus other self publishing services, such as Kindle?

It's open-source