Are you done with product development when you have a completed design?

January 25, 2010

Many people and companies assume that when a product is designed and engineered that the product development process is complete.  That is most certainly not the case for physical assembled products – and not expecting this fact can be very frustrating for the inventor and start-up. The product development process continues with production tooling through [...]

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Different Industries, Same Goals… Similar or Different?

January 5, 2010

Tucker Marion Presents Case Studies in Santa Cruz, California Late in 2009, Tucker Marion along with other authors from Northeastern University presented three case studies at the 2009 North American Case Research Association annual meeting. http://nacra.net/meeting2009/ The three case studies are designed to drive research and curriculum development in the area of technology venture development.  [...]

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Logo Creation and the Development Process

December 14, 2009

Logos can make your brand stand out, but how do they get that way? How do inventpreneurs go from ideas, descriptions and emotions to a final product? The featured  development of our logo will show you. The process theory revolves around iterative designs based on refinement and feedback.  The process begins with a description of [...]

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E-Text Books, eDGe and Gbook

December 11, 2009

Inventors often say, “I thought of that” while product developers say “I worked on that, but put it down”. 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 [...]

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Redesigning Products For the Stores

December 3, 2009

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 [...]

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Product Development Growth in Comeback

November 30, 2009

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 [...]

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Craft Fair Marketing Lessons

November 11, 2009

This past weekend I attended the Hampstead Mothers Club Craft Fair to sell my pens and my girl friend’s mothers purses and gooey apples.  I’d rather not say that we weren’t prepared, but we didn’t have a sign, business cards or any of the other marketing materials the other vendors had, however we were selling [...]

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Innovation around Boston–a historical scavenger hunt around America’s oldest city!

October 15, 2009

A world of text messaging, text alerts and high tech employees on Blackberries and iPhones running around Boston, MA in pursuit of “Quest for Innovation”.  This high-tech scavenger hunt focused on Boston’s history and leadership as a city of innovation and entrepreneurship.  Not only is Boston the home to the Red Sox, Celtics, and Patriots, [...]

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Product Development on Twitter

October 13, 2009

At Flashpoint Development we have been using Twitter to share opportunities, technology findings and other items of interest. A few highlights include: Nice list of disruptive technologies: http://bit.ly/yay95 In Boston 10/9? Sign up for the Quest for Innovation: www.questforinnovation.com. Cell phone scavenger hunt and great networking activity. Check out Global Entrepreneurship Week: http://www.unleashingideas…. Lots of [...]

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New Thermometer & Inventor / Developer Talk

September 11, 2009

I am looking forward to IANE meeting next week…  Daniela Stark is the inventor and developer of the Kidknows Outdoor Thermometer, which empowers kids to choose the right outdoor clothing even if they are not old enough to recognize numbers.  Daniela was an award winning industrial designer for Product Genesis and Arthur D. Little, Inc.  She [...]

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