Mark Sherry

Post 2 – Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur Start in a Small Place and Grow Today’s article is called “Start in a Small Place and Grow”. I am sort of picking it up where we left off on my last post. (If you missed it or are new to my posts go here - gofer.run/marksherry to catch up - I will try to post every two weeks). Now everything you read about a start up says start small, make mistakes, fail quickly, make changes and learn how to get the flywheel going. So, we picked where we were living North Bay as the place to start small. North Bay is a city of 52,000 people so it seemed as good as any a place to start, plus we thought we would have the hometown advantage. We launched One Red Maple in August of 2022 in North Bay at the Bay Block Party, the annual largest party that the city has. We had a team of employees that talked to people in the crowd about ORM and encouraged them to download the app. Talking to strangers is a gift and one that I wished I had developed ...gofer.run/marksherry/start-i…

Hi, I am Mark Sherry a serial entrepreneur from North Bay, Ontario Canada. If you are getting this email you've interacted with me in one of my companies over the years. See logos below. I have founded nine companies in the last twenty-five years in a whole bunch of widely different industries, including restaurants, explosives, mining software, board games, software sales, consulting and most recently a grocery shopping app called gofer.run. Many people seem to be interested in my entrepreneurial journey, so I have decided to share it. It is from my point of view without a great deal of self editing. I will capture snippets of my journey through a blog called “Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur”. My first article called “What the Pandemic Made Me Do” was about a passion project we had to pivot away from called One Red Maple. One Red Maple was an app that redirected sales out of large corporately owned online stores to locally owned businesses. Think of the modern-day equivalent of Robinhood stealing sales from Amazon and redirecting them locally. I will send this blog by email or follow me on LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/mark-sherry-…. If you wish to opt out of the emails just go the bottom of this email and click on manage preferences and opt out of the confessions of a serial entrepreneur emails. If you click on unsubscribe you will be removed from all email lists. Mark Sherry Serial Entrepreneur

Check out our new ad for Tripped. I think it encapsulates the essence of our new game. Tripped is a fun, fast-paced, light strategy game. lnkd.in/gTiZxjp8

With the overwhelming response from both communities we hired a new map maker and found a route to get both on the Tripped Board! WE ARE NOW LIVE ON KICKSTARTER - kickstarter.com/projects/166…

Morning North with Markus Schwabe - Nov. 11, 2024: New board game was created in North Bay cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-4…

Here we go! Tripped is about to launch on Kickstarter November 12 at 8 AM PT. Go here to purchase on Tuesday - kickstarter.com/projects/166…

Tick-tock, time’s running out! ⏰ Vote for North Bay or Sudbury at igottripped.com before the clock hits zero! 💥 #CountdownToVictory #IGotTripped #trippedgame #northbay #sudbury

TRIPPED! Is almost here! @NorthBayEcho hosts Scott Clark and Dave Dale chat with creators Mark Sherry @MSherry45 and Eric Boutilier about game strategies and the journey to launch! Check it out here. northbayecho.ca/tips-strateg…

Great weekend at the East Ferris Tradeshow! Had a blast sharing TRIPPED with the community, including a chat with Mayor Pauline Rochefort who stopped by to meet North Bay inventor Éric Boutilier. #eastferris #community #trippedgame #tripped #northerngames

THINGS...that are perfect for family game night. Introducing TRIPPED- our latest board game! Race around North America and back while trying not to get TRIPPED up! Pre-order now and receive 20% off plus a free TRIPPED t-shirt with your game: get.trippedgame.com