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One of the elephants lurking in the living room is the matter how how large the potential market is. More people eat food than purchase plants. (Your D&D start-up looks pretty neat, though.)



+1.

Think like an investor. Imagine this startup got as huge as it possibly could get and gobbled up a few adjacent markets. Could you imagine it selling to Google (or someone else) for $1B? $500m? Has there ever been any M&A activity anywhere near this market of consequence?

No doubt that there is a business here, but I think most investors look for a larger TAM as well as a market that is getting ready to blow up (or starting to).

http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the-pmarca-gu-2.html (good reading on the subject of startup markets)


For those that missed it whilst skimming the first time (like me):

http://www.obsidianportal.com/

It does look pretty cool.


My startup is doing something similar: a web app targeted at table-top gaming. It's not ready yet, but it has a few things Obsidian lacks, and we're looking for more coders and/or designers; if anyone is interested, give me a shout at luke at ziggurati dot net.




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