I love locks.
I love locks. There’s a war going on. It’s mostly invisible, the stakes aren’t high, the combatants are few, but that doesn’t matter! Today I will discuss my allegiance to an increasingly...
Why Groupon (and other daily deals) are terrible for room escape businesses
I'll cut to the chase: Using Groupon is bad for your room escape business. NOTE: The below applies to all daily deals sites, but I'll be referring to the greater concept as "Groupon" for the rest...
What Product Management Can Teach About the Biggest Room Escape Design Blunders
I have a tremendous advantage over most everyone involved with room escape design. Prior to Puzzle Break, I spent many years as a Product Manager. More importantly, I bore witness to some of the best...
The Biggest Myths in Escape Room Competition
I’m involved with countless discussions about evaluating competition amongst escape room companies as it pertains to owner-operators and the bottom line. Over the years, I’ve noticed a couple...
Technology failure in escape rooms
Earlier this year, I was in Los Angeles and decided to make the trip a bit of an escape room marathon. My co-founder and I played 7 escape rooms across several companies. We learned a lot from our...
The Road Warrior
Picture if you will: a Road Warrior. No, not this guy. Is this reference too dated by now? I'm talking about the traveling champion of business, a little something like...
Playing Business vs. Doing Business
Right around the first and second anniversaries of Puzzle Break, I made detailed posts to the Entrepreneur section of Reddit discussing the history of our business, milestones, the evolution of the...
On the Definition & Importance of Actual Puzzles in Escape Rooms
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in Jacobellis v. Ohio famously said on pornography, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within...
On being everything to everyone.
The following is a short piece I wrote for a discussion group. It is targeted for folks in the escape room community, but I feel the greater message holds true for entrepreneurs of all stripes: If I...
Why Escape Rooms are the Best Teambuilding Activity in the World
There are many types of activities companies can do for corporate teambuilding. There's go-karting, classes where we apply pseudo-science to learn about our personalities and work styles, restaurant...