My 9-year-old son, Owen, had long ago been indoctrinated by the entrepreneurial spirit. I don’t remember how it all started, but now he owns stock and has been saving up to buy a hotel. So, yeah.
Anyhow, I wasn’t surprised when he came to me last month with an idea for a game. With excited eyes, he explained the mechanics of a math-based learning game and how he wanted to sell it on an app store.
We have a habit of discussing business ideas so it wasn’t until later that evening that I realized to myself, “goshdarnit, we could actually do this— it’s kinda what I do for a living.”
I thought I’d share how it went and some of the anecdotal observations I made along the way — skip to the end if you want to hear about our process.