The Business of Games
How two toy & game entrepreneurs use trends to create hit products.
The Unofficial Shopify Podcast · Tim Swindle, Scott Robinson, Kurt Elster
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Show Notes
Scott Brown & Tim Swindle are the creators of PaddleSmash, a new outdoor active game that combines elements of Pickleball and Spikeball.
Scott Brown is the co-founder of Marbles: The Brain Store, a retail concept focused on building better brains through play, which eventually grew to 40 stores, a website, a catalog business and a proprietary product division.
Tim Swindle created Utter Nonsense, an entertaining card game that was quickly carried by several retailers and ultimately within all 1,800 Target stores. Utter Nonsense was acquired in 2017 by private equity backed, PlayMonster.
What did the learn and where are they going? Today is all about product development in the toys & games space.
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