To understand how your product idea will later weigh in the marketplace, you should ask calculated questions early in the product development process. Here are techniques you can use to solicit purposeful feedback when showing off your new product.
Having a big idea is just the beginning. Most people will have several actionable ideas in their lifetime, but the difference between whether those ideas become profitable depends on protection, perseverance and sometimes a little luck. Today, on World IP Day, we’re digging into how you can protect your ideas and chatting with Josh Malone, policy director for US Inventor, and inventor of Bunch O Balloons.
Building new technology requires exhausting cycles of prototyping, which can sometimes lead to inventor burnout. Enventys Partners explains how anti-prototyping, the practice of discovery and building for fun, can help new and experienced inventors, alike, learn skills and rejuvenate creativity.
“It’s unusual to take something from A to Z, and I must have developed 100 different products to the level of design development, and maybe 40 of them into prototypes, and then a handful that actually went to the marketplace.”
Electronic prototypes can be difficult to build. You can’t see most of the parts and you have to rely on measurements, not just the naked eye, to troubleshoot. To get your electronic device up and running, Enventys Partners explains the three common ways electronic prototypes fail and how you can avoid them.