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.
Whether you’re just starting out, or you’re a seasoned inventor, it’s always helpful to expand your education by reading industry books. This World Book Day, Enventys Partners President, Roy Morejon, suggests the top five books he thinks every inventor should read.
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.
“By the second day, it was on Good Morning America. And then the TODAY show calls, and they fly me out to New York City and I’m on national television having a water balloon fight in Times Square with Carson Daly.”
The team with FloSonix, a lice desiccation device, had a list of unique mechanical and electrical requirements. Enventys Partners took on the challenge and even used additive manufacturing, specifically with the Origin One 3D Printer, to help bring this product to life.
“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.
Like our clients, Enventys Partners started with an idea – well, two ideas. In the 20 years that have followed, that idea led Louis Foreman, Roy Morejon and the entire Enventys Partners team on a journey not unlike many small businesses all over the world. Our journey began as the U.S. economy was rebuilding in the aftermath of 9/11 and today, as we emerge from a global pandemic, it’s safe to say the journey has been anything but expected.
We’ve heard a lot of great questions about the product development process with more folks using the pandemic shakeup as an opportunity to make their ideas come to life. As 2020 comes to a close, Enventys Partners reflects on our most common prototyping and manufacturing questions of the year.
