I found this article last night by Dharmesh Shah on his blog, onstartups.com about early releasing. While the article is focused on software, a quick work replacement (software = products) reveals that the two development paths are actually quite a like. There is always a race to market, even if you don’t know it and [...]
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My New Invention Present
Posted in November 6th, 2008
I haven’t talked too much about Inventors Digest lately, but a recent article really hit the spot. Inventors Digest is a pretty good magazine focused on invention stories, patent law and other invention developments. In the new issue there is a new article on holiday gifts for inventors which was interesting. After reading I remembered [...]
My Voting Machine???
Posted in November 5th, 2008
Yesterday was a very exciting day, but one item I was missing was trying out the touchscreen voting machine. I’ve seen them all over TV, but when I went into vote I got some ancient technology and not even a booth. I voted in Back Bay Boston at the Boston Public Library a major voting [...]
Golf Product Development
Posted in October 7th, 2008
A recent article in Golf Digest titled Intellegent Design: how computers and digital analysis have amped up golf’s innovation curve got me thinking about my limited view on the new golf products. When I first started playing golf my freshman year of college the equipment was a really fun part of the experience. [...]
Which Idea Should You Pick???
Posted in September 25th, 2008
Many times inventors come to us with their best idea, other times we are presented with the top three and asked which is best. Being confronted with delivering this type of input is difficult for a number of reasons, but mainly because we want to put resources into the best one. The difficulty [...]
Sailing, Technology Adoption and Market Need
Posted in August 15th, 2008
After an overnight on our sailboat, we woke up to discover the batteries were dead (and couldn’t start the motor). We made it home safe sailing off the anchor and making our way back home but needless to say it was rough. Why did this happen? Because when sleeping on an anchored [...]
WHY, WHO &HOW to Develop Your Product
Posted in May 28th, 2008
You have a product in mind, but don’t want to develop it maybe you need to
• Focus on the market
• Go to your Job
Or your product needs
• Expertise you don’t have
• Someone who has done it before
You can’t do it alone, so who do you go to? Product development firms can be very different in outcome and price. [...]
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