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Raz: Spikeball grew early on via church youth groups and Amish communities
“They ended up having a lot of success initially with church youth groups. Just, they had no idea. Like, church youth groups started to buy, and Amish communities randomly were just buying Spikeball, because it turns out that it's a game that was safe to be pla…”
Spikeball Reached $1 Million in Revenue Without Any Full-Time Employees
“So we had a million dollars
with zero full-time employees in 2013, and that's when my wife and I agreed it was safe to quit the day job.”
Spikeball Earned a Front-Page Wall Street Journal Story on Amish Players
“We wound up getting a front page story on the Wall Street Journal on that topic.”
The Original Spikeball Had No Patent and an Expired Trademark
“There never was a patent on the product, so the design itself is kind of open, and the trademark, which protects the name Spikeball, has been expired, like, 10 years or something like that, so.”