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Check out this interview with Tucker Marion, the Managing Partner of Flashpoint Development as he discusses his academic and industry perspectives of bootstrapping, team building and product development. Tucker Marion Interview from Tom Ermolovich on Vimeo.
Inventors often say, “I thought of that” while product developers say “I worked on that, but put it down”. eDGe During 2007-2008 we worked on a dual screen media device aimed at being the e-reader for kids in school, we called it gBook (left). To the right is the new eDGe, which was covered in the [...] A bottle of soda and a toothbrush. It is hard to imagine that these products can be made to stand out and even be desired above necessity… I went shopping recently and I was amazed by the pull of two products. The first a coke bottle, but not any coke bottle… it was a ball [...] Innovation made easy with modern advances in cost efficiencies, lower tool costs and shared spaces. The new tinkerers use Hackerspaces, a shared tool supply, space and a community. Tool prices including 3D printers, CNC machines and many others have plummeted from hundreds of thousands of dollars to a few thousand. An article (WSJ) and radio show [...] Many focus on the financial aspect of Superbowl Ads. I agree that $3 million is astonishing for a 30 second commercial, but I think about that differently. If a company is going to spend an amazing amount of money for 30 seconds, it must be a pretty good example of what the top [...] This week on Judge Alex an invention dispute was heard between uncle and nephew. Episode intro: LOUIS’ GREAT INVENTION Quickparts, a prototype shop sent over their CEOs new book, Better Be Running: Tools that Drive Design Success. Although I am not very far into it, so far so good. I really appreciate the send out as it was on my book list after reading some reviews from Inventors Digest. I look forward to passing [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
 
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