Can you imagine that a 9-year-old child now
has a $150,000 scholarship fund and fans all over the world just by making full
use of his father’s used auto parts store to build a cardboard arcade for game
playing? Well, you might have heard the story about the little Caine Monroy, a
9-year-old child who had constructed his own cardboard replica of several
arcade-style games, such as miniature pop-shot basketball and ring toss in his elaborate
Cardboard Arcade for people to play. His
story even holds lessons for budding online entrepreneurs. Well, if you still
have no idea of what happed with Caine Monroy, I would like to share with you
what the story is. And try to know something that could bring you money in this
story.
When
Caine Monroy came to his Dad’s auto parts store, he generated the idea of
replicating arcade-style games with the used parts and successfully created
some games. At the very beginning, there were few customers entering the store
and playing his cardboard arcade games. But thanks to Nirvan Mullick, who had
been a loyal customer by chance and made a short 10-minute documentary video
for the store (you can watch the Caine’s Arcade video bellow), Caine’s
cardboard arcade was gradually known to the massive. In this documentary video,
you could see what development of Caine’s arcade games.
Well, after knowing about Caine and his
arcade, you may wonder what lessons could be presented for budding online
entrepreneurs from this story. Forbes released a story earlier this week that details nine factors of Caine and
Mullick's success that other entrepreneurs should review. In this Forbs’ story,
it is even predicted that Caine might be a billionaire in 30 years. Another meme
is born. But more than a meme is what startups can learn from this experience:
Just because you only have one customer doesn't mean you aren't in business,
and you should treat every customer as carefully as Caine did. So if you are an
entrepreneur looking for inspiration today, check out the short video and read
up on Caine's Arcade. It should get you thinking on how you too can create
something from your own passion, even if you are just nine years old. If you
like, you can free download Caine’s Arcade video to your own computer and then you can watch
it unlimited.
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