I’m John C Bland II

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Founder of Katapult Media, and full-stack polyglot developer.
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My Startup Story: Lessons Learned from Ngame.tv

At any point in your history, as a designer or developer, you have thought of a cool idea. This idea would be awesome if you could only get it out there but you never end up doing it or you do it and it fails. What could you do or could you have done to make sure your startup was successful?

Well, I’ve been down this path a few times and I’m going to share my most recent story in the hopes of helping someone avoid mistakes I’ve made or have witnessed in my startup attempts. As a point of reference, I’m going to use my most recent startup involvement: Ngame.tv*. Presently, I’m no longer with Ngame but my learning experience was vast!

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