Interview with the BulletBall guy. He is much better off than TV suggests.
http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/blog/2006/03/30/american-in...
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#12Interview with the BulletBall guy. He is much better off than TV suggests. http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/blog/2006/03/30/american-in...
TV likes to sensationalize everything, I give this guy credit for taking the jump that many people would just never even try.
From the interview link:
"During the first 22 years since BulletBall’s conception, it was like a hobby, a game played among family and friends on weekends, during vacations, or summer picnics and parties.
I actually invested too much of my life working for Corporate America 5-6 days a week, an average of 10 hours a day, for 25 years. If I had my priorities straight I would have understood years ago that "it is better to have tried and failed than not tried at all". Better late than never:)"
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#13Interview with the BulletBall guy. He is much better off than TV suggests. http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/blog/2006/03/30/american-in...
What part of the article indicates that he is well off?
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#14Interview with the BulletBall guy. He is much better off than TV suggests. http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/blog/2006/03/30/american-in...
What part of the article indicates that he is well off?
Not well off. Better off. American Inventor made him seem like a hopelessly deluded fellow. Deluded he may be, but he's not as insane as you would believe having watched only the TV show.
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#15Come on, this is just bullshit. How the heck does some spend 26 years and a small fortune on putting together a simple table and buying some balls? My 14 year old nephew could have build him that table for 10 bucks and some ice cream...
I'm not impressed, but after reading this article I have some respect for the guy. At least he went through lawyers, patents, and manufacturers. However minute, he must have done some homework about table size, ball size/weight/bounciness/color, and he's spent 100K on tours for his market research. If anything at all, he's got guts to make something that looks ordinary into something "professional."
That said, I still don't get the difference between BB and BBE, nor the need for one. Having watched the video, visited the website, and read this interview, he seems to have internalized the answers to that question like a tape recorder.
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#16The point isn't that the idea was bad. Anyone could see that.
This was a demonstration of a level of passion and perserverence you rarely see any more.
I'd like one good idea from this board and 3 people like him. Nothing would stop us.
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#17Interview with the BulletBall guy. He is much better off than TV suggests. http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/blog/2006/03/30/american-in...
"but the American Inventor judges seemed more focused on the inventor’s life story rather than seriously evaluating his invention"
Doesn't yc do the same thing with some applicants?
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#18I live in a van down by the river!
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#19A friend sent this to me. I thought it was a great lesson for entrepreneurs. If I could channel that kind of determination... If the above link doesn't work, try YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOw2yWMSfk The official site: http://bulletballgames.com
Determination? Or delusion?
The only difference between the two is whether you have success or not. (So get a small bit of success early on, and you'll come off as determined!)