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I'm seeing spoilers for the new mtg set, and despite a kindof cool theme, They're falling kindof flat. I think I've overdosed on mtg.
But the game of growing the draft league I started is still compelling, along with the parallels to business startups.
The model, in this case, will likely remain a charity model, that's to say negative economic value in the pursuit of addressing a market failure. But there are similarities, such as bootstrapping changes in human behavior, and circumventing network effects of competitors(stores).
Interestingly, the world decided to throw a curveball to this case study, one that's killed other startups. But the more I think about it, the more it may represent an opportunity, rather than a setback, maybe.
All over the place, human behavior is thrown up in the air. Elements of an independant paper model are more aligned with certain elements of the changing directions of online play. Recent changes to the point's system cost stores some of their leverage.
The goal is not to compete with good stores, but to force bad stores to behave better, and I'll take any help that can be used to this end.
I think this is the closest I've come to a tweetstorm (are they even still called that?). Next time, I'll try to pre-storm so I can use numbered tweets.
This thread reminds me of the loss when major VCs and business incubator figures left or reduced their involvement in twitter. It was motivational. It was partly this crazy moment in time that has passed, but still...
