Funding the Dream

About Funding the Dream

Raising money and launching a business are daunting tasks. Since 2011, Richard Bliss has hosted a wide array of guests who bring their expertise in all areas of business. With a heavy focus on the board game industry, Richard and his guests have taught thousands of people how to fund their dreams. Join Richard and his next guest as you look to build and grow your own business.

Publisher

Richard Bliss

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Nov 2011

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 343 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   EP 341 Empire Builder Is Back

   Host Trella Bromley and Jeff Jackson of Darwin's Toys discuss reviving the beloved Empire Builder board game series and its enduring appeal in this interview.

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   23 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   EP 340 Claude AI is my live guest - Talking AI

   You’ve probably heard plenty of arguments about AI already. We take a different path: I bring my AI companion, Claude, onto Funding the Dream and let you hear how we actually work together when nobody’s selling a product and nobody’s reading a script. The goal is practical and specific: running a solo Traveler campaign and using AI for tabletop RPG worldbuilding, scenario iteration, and creative companionship without pretending the hard questions don’t exist. We talk through the nuts and bolt...

3. 

   19 Mar 2026

   EP 339 How Van Ryder Games Built Final Girl Through Crowdfunding

   Kickstarter for board games used to reward scrappy creators with a prototype and a promise. Now it often rewards publishers who look like they’re already finished. After 14 years, I sit down again with AJ Porfirio, founder of Van Ryder Games, to map that shift from the inside, from his first $10K campaign to Final Girl Series 4 pushing $1.5M with thousands of backers. We talk about how AJ got started designing a solo board game simply because he didn’t have people to play with, and how tools...

Inside a recent episode

EP 341 Empire Builder Is Back

Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But AI and its ability to do, Trello, what you just said, the analytics, it's giving you an ability to do something here with Empire Builder Ireland. I think that's probably helped in some way. You want to talk about how that has had an impact? So I'm using AI now in order to build essentially a grid. So every spot has a node on it so that it can calculate for me the distance, the cost between a commodity and the city, because that is what the formula is based on for what your payout is going to be. So it's helping me calculate to confirm that I'm getting the right distance cost. so that I can calculate the payoffs correctly and make sure they're right. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

39 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

3 ratings

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