Halfwood Press Memorabilia and Micro Prototype

Halfwood Press Memorabilia and Micro Prototype

This wooden box with a temporary cardboard cover holds the entire list of peoples' names who bought Halfwood Presses since 2004 until about 2018. The sheets pinned inside have their names, addresses, email, and telephone numbers. Also their press number and any data Bill thought might be needed in the future to make the project successful. Seen from the perspective of 2024 - a generation later - the box, with its first prototype of a Micro Halfwood press so small it fits in the palm of one's hand, Bill believes that an entrepreneur, given a professional marketer's help, could turn the data in this box, and the physical model plus YouTube videos, could restart the Halfwood Press enterprise and build a highly successful and meaningful company such as Bill's 2023 model, the STREAMN Printmaking Schoolbox. The value of $6,000 he gave to this box is his guess. It is a sum large enough to capture the attention of someone with this small risk capital whose skills, knowledge, and attitude equips them with what it takes to build a company today - like those who study the Innovation Workshop Series by VC Skok at Harvard, for example. Bill believes there are 60,000,000 people in the US who are interested in printmaking and that is a market large enough to study and develop the Halfwood Press market for, allowing for the concurrent billion-dollar market for educational subscription boxes.