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This week, out of the blue, we received an acquisition offer.
It's a good one, but, we're pre-launch and we really want to see what we can do outside of the confines of a more established company. If we're going to continue, it might be time to start exploring funding options.
We have a fantastic team composed of programmers, designers, and writers/videographers with strong ties to our industry.
Our tech team is already open sourcing parts of our framework and our media team has an audience of close to 100,000 for their board game review show/blog.
Does anyone know of an Angel or VC with a soft spot for modern board games?
Could you ask them to get in touch?
investingincardboard(a)gmail(dot)com
Rejection seems to go something like this:
First, you'll notice that someone is reading your application. It'll trigger one of your alerts and you'll switch to watching your logs in real-time. You see what they're clicking on and groan in horror: "Oh no! They didn't look at the wireframes!!?!"
And then it's over. Silence.
BUT! About 2-4 hours later you get another alert! Someone else is reading the app!
You think: "Neat! We must have impressed someone enough to make it to the next round of review! This will change our lives! I need to get ready to move to San Francisco! I just bought two dozen eggs at Costco today, how am I going to get all of those chickens out to California?"
And then it's over. Silence.
An hour passes, two, three, four.
You spend the rest of the night sifting though your logs with the enthusiasm of an FAA crash investigator. The next day you wake up and immediately check your logs and analytics again.
Silence. It's over. Back to work.
It leaves me wondering, what kind of activity do you see before an application is accepted? Is there a calm before the storm as they make their way through all of the applications or is it a steady stream of activity?
What have others experienced this round?