Long Term Game: How To Build A Video Games Company

Hey good people of Product Hunt! I'm not the maker of this book, but I'm proud to have helped the maker, Joakim, with this project. I'll just paste the book's intro here, I hope you all find it so good that everyone just runs to buy the book! :) In the book, Long Term Game, Joakim Achrén, former co-founder of Next Games, draws on years of experience in gaming startups to provide clear and honest guidance on how to found and build a thriving games company. Building a games company is usually thought by trial and error. But in the real world, this isn’t an effective way. It causes lots of misery and needless pain for entrepreneurs, whom all go through the same mistakes. They all are suffering from failures that are so common for gaming startups. This book was created, so that gaming entrepreneurs would have a resource, a guiding manual for finding clarity in their quest to build a games company. The author of this book, Joakim Achrén is the Founder and CEO of Elite Game Developers (https://elitegamedevelopers.com), a Helsinki, Finland, based company that helps gaming entrepreneurs in starting their first games company. Joakim is an entrepreneur, with fifteen years of experience in founding and running two venture-backed gaming startups, including Next Games, the company behind The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land and The Walking Dead: Our World mobile games. Joakim has gone through the venture capital fundraising process several times and has raised over $50 million in venture funding over his 15-year career as an entrepreneur. This book is intended for people who are interested in founding and building a games company. The book covers aspects of putting together the idea for the company, the founding team, raising capital, validating your assumptions, and details on everything that can go wrong in the games business.