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Whats up crew, im planning on opening a golf, beer and cigar lounge out here in so cal, what do you recommend for progarm and supplies? How many bays do you recommend?
really depends on the square footage - a lot of sims cram as many bays as possible, but I believe a balance of privacy and space makes a big difference. We use Trackman, although it is higher end
Wish you guys talked more about finding funding and what steps you took to make it happen from a financial standpoint. Investors? Personal savings? Loans? And what steps you took to get those, and the timeline that happened.
Good question - everyone is different and the way we did it was a bit unconventional because we had leverage with our Golfheadz media page and growth opportunities outside of the simulator. We did take on investment and dug into personal savings (which is very risky) as well as small loans from F&F. You can also go the route of a bank but that can take a lot of time and chance to not get approved without a track record. I think a big thing is, we pitched something new and exciting, so we had a lot of interest. You must build out the vision prior to pitching and we really found an area of need in the simulator space. It would be a harder sell now as the past year, a lot of similar simulators have opened up just like ours. The entire build out took about 4 months and we were raising as we were building. But we built a financial breakdown and basically saw a big opportunity to profit in the first year which we did. Hope this helps, but unfortunately we can't go into the deal teams with investment.
Man, I live in a place with NO entertainment and 126k people. We're in FL with thousands of serious golfers. I want to build one of these, but I'm not sure if they're profitable. Is there anywhere I can go to look at case studies? We'll definitely have F&B and I want kid/social games as well as real courses, in order to maximize profits. Any advice is appreciated!
Those areas are interesting, but it depends on the weather. Our summers here are really slow but our winters are rammed. Also we don't do F&B which we don't have any costs outside of rent, utilities, and wear & tear. I would look at other areas that have indoor sims such as Arizona.
It's a bit complex but we use Skedda for a booking software and software called Zapier to automate it - we had a friend who had this built out that we leveraged. There are other booking softwares that can automate things as well.
Watched the video again, in it's entirety and I can really relate to the approach you all have taken. I have been in the industry for about 5 years and for the last few months, I have been planning for opening a very similar business here in south Louisiana. The info you shared regarding extra space and creating that comfort level as opposed to packing it with cheap sim bays and tight walkways/walkthroughs, was a takeaway that really registered with me. If I can ever catch up with you guys, I would like to hear even more and wish you all the best of luck in this venture. I am certain you will continue to crush it! congrats and let this be only the beginning! Our paths will cross someday before long!
Appreciate the comment! I know we were jumping around topics in this episode but glad you got some nuggets. Feel free to email me, happy to chat! John@golfheadz.co (not .com)
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How did you build capital to start ?
@@ryanhawkins9805 Loans and scrapped a Friends & Family Round along with personal
Hands down the best golf sim in the GTA!!
thank you!
GOLF IS LIFE
Ive wanted to jump in and do this in down here in SW-FL.
Dope setup brotha!!!
Thanks Jose!
Great looking facility! 🎉
Appreciate it!
Whats up crew, im planning on opening a golf, beer and cigar lounge out here in so cal, what do you recommend for progarm and supplies? How many bays do you recommend?
really depends on the square footage - a lot of sims cram as many bays as possible, but I believe a balance of privacy and space makes a big difference. We use Trackman, although it is higher end
Wish you guys talked more about finding funding and what steps you took to make it happen from a financial standpoint. Investors? Personal savings? Loans? And what steps you took to get those, and the timeline that happened.
Good question - everyone is different and the way we did it was a bit unconventional because we had leverage with our Golfheadz media page and growth opportunities outside of the simulator. We did take on investment and dug into personal savings (which is very risky) as well as small loans from F&F. You can also go the route of a bank but that can take a lot of time and chance to not get approved without a track record. I think a big thing is, we pitched something new and exciting, so we had a lot of interest. You must build out the vision prior to pitching and we really found an area of need in the simulator space. It would be a harder sell now as the past year, a lot of similar simulators have opened up just like ours. The entire build out took about 4 months and we were raising as we were building. But we built a financial breakdown and basically saw a big opportunity to profit in the first year which we did.
Hope this helps, but unfortunately we can't go into the deal teams with investment.
Man, I live in a place with NO entertainment and 126k people. We're in FL with thousands of serious golfers. I want to build one of these, but I'm not sure if they're profitable. Is there anywhere I can go to look at case studies? We'll definitely have F&B and I want kid/social games as well as real courses, in order to maximize profits. Any advice is appreciated!
Those areas are interesting, but it depends on the weather. Our summers here are really slow but our winters are rammed. Also we don't do F&B which we don't have any costs outside of rent, utilities, and wear & tear. I would look at other areas that have indoor sims such as Arizona.
What are you guys used to automate your set up so that you don’t have to be there all the time
It's a bit complex but we use Skedda for a booking software and software called Zapier to automate it - we had a friend who had this built out that we leveraged. There are other booking softwares that can automate things as well.
Watched the video again, in it's entirety and I can really relate to the approach you all have taken. I have been in the industry for about 5 years and for the last few months, I have been planning for opening a very similar business here in south Louisiana. The info you shared regarding extra space and creating that comfort level as opposed to packing it with cheap sim bays and tight walkways/walkthroughs, was a takeaway that really registered with me. If I can ever catch up with you guys, I would like to hear even more and wish you all the best of luck in this venture. I am certain you will continue to crush it! congrats and let this be only the beginning! Our paths will cross someday before long!
Appreciate the comment! I know we were jumping around topics in this episode but glad you got some nuggets.
Feel free to email me, happy to chat! John@golfheadz.co (not .com)
@@GolfHeadz I appreciate that. I just shot out an email. Thx