Escape rooms are big business

Re:Escape rooms are big business by dfeojm-zlib on Saturday August 10, 2019 @07:18AM (#20661432)

I would find a better (defensible) business model that's better than a restaurant that anyone can open. ER's have zero intellectual property and anyone can start such a business for little investment. Do something else (hard/er/expensive/tedious for most people) that lends itself to greater monopolization by you, and that's profitable. (Build something defensible and profitable that customers love.)

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Re:Escape rooms are big business by braythwayt on Saturday August 10, 2019 @10:21AM (#20662195)

I wrote some books.

Books are completely indefensible. There are billions of the things, and new ones get written all the time. I made some money. I was and am very happy to have written books.

Is writing books a good business? Perhaps not, if viewed through the “The world is divided into unicorns and NOOPs” lens. But I don’t look at the world through that lens.

See also: Making music, opening a social pub, running a day care, organizing festivals or conferences...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_business

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Re:Escape rooms are big business by TheSoftwareGuy on Saturday August 10, 2019 @09:52AM (#20662019)

Not everyone needs to be a billionaire monopolist, I think most people can be happy with a solid consistent income

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Re:Escape rooms are big business by EForEndeavour on Saturday August 10, 2019 @09:35AM (#20661934)

Would your advice to anyone interested in building an escape room not to build an escape room?

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