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Startup Freak (2019)

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I try to build a billion dollar startup in Startup Freak. This is a new game by PulPul Games. You hire staff, raise venture capital, build a marketing plan, develop software features and fix bugs, performance and add automated tests, rack servers in data centers and more. Keep your staff happy with bean bag chairs and espresso machines. Don't forget the ms. pacman machine!

In this episode:

I build out more features, bug fixes, security and performance enhancements and managed to get cash flow positive (revenues greater than expenses). I also hired on some more people to fill up the office and gave them some things to play with.

I learned some tips along the way. (see below).

Some tips I learned:

- set your CEO pay to $0 (she/he won't quit)
- make sure to have good test coverage
- have security cover most/all features
- upgrade all your features
- allow people to quit due to low pay (easy to replace)
- the concord server has great capacity vs. price (fill the racks with this in all data centers before jumping to the calibrato
- always be doing market research as it unlocks great things
- do requested features first
- if your customers want design before tech then do 4 block features which are 1 dev 3 design
- if churn is higher than signups ramp down ads until fixed (or else you're just burning money)
- get each marketing skill up to 7 (unlocks all marketing types) beyond this there isn't much point unless you have a massive budget
- once you have branding 9% bonus there is not point researching it more.
- performance enhancements on requested features give very nice boosts
- when churn hits 0, ramp up your marketing budget.



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ABOUT: Startup Freak

In Startup Freak you take the role of a budding entrepreneur, and grow your very own software startup from humble beginnings to a multi-million dollar company. Along the way you will have to overcome countless challenges, from building, testing and securing your product, to devising the ideal marketing strategy and securing investment. Through it, you must ask yourself the ultimate question: are you a Startup Freak?
Build a stellar team
Your staff are everything especially in those all-important early years. Hire an awesome team, skilled in technical, design, operational, or sales aspects of your startup.
Build out your product
Create your very own product by researching the market and building bigger and better features that match your users' demands. But building features isn't everything! You must ensure they are tested and bug-free, well secured, and tuned for performance. Features can also be upgraded and enhanced, for example by incorporating responsive design, or adding accessibility.
Plan your infrastructure
Even the best software is worthless without the right hardware to run on. Manage your data centres across the world, by researching better and more powerful servers, and dealing with ever increasing and shifting user traffic to your services.
Find the right sales channels
Not every sales channel is created equal. More importantly, not every sales channel works well for all types of product. It's your job to use data, and a bit of intuition, to figure out the best go-to-market strategy and win against the odds.
Tune your pricing
Pricing software is more art than science. Plan a pricing strategy, test it, and adapt to the market.
On-board investors
Early stage startups are always in dire need of funding. But pitching your venture to a potential investor is no easy feat! Research and understand your would-be investors, put together a convincing slide-deck, and watch them offer you millions for a small share in your company. P.S. don't forget to haggle!
Deck out your office
What startup doesn't want to be the talk of town for its fancy office? Buy all sorts of gadgets and furniture for your office and give your employees yet another reason to stick around.
Make a big exit
Sooner or later, every founder wants to make an exit from their startup and see the fruits of their labours on a check. The number on that check is dependent on every single decision you have made along the way.

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