Starting a business is easier said than done—from startup costs to finding suppliers and endless unexpected challenges. This week we’re chatting with Dan and Dave Buck, the founders of Art of Play, to learn more about the nitty gritty of how they took the idea for a games and amusements shop and turned it into a reality.
Read part 1 and part 2 of Art of Play’s journey.
Art of Play: We started thinking about a dedicated card site in early 2012 when momentum really started picking up in the card community. dananddave.com was selling more and more decks each year, and other brands were releasing decks left and right. This is also around the time independent artists began launching decks on Kickstarter to great success. Late 2012 we acquired the domain www.artofplay.com, and on August 12th, 2013, we launched.
