Business Ideas
I Teach Aspiring Entrepreneurs How to Prototype — Try These 4 Simple Tips to Turn Blank Pages Into Blueprints
Here's how you can use prototyping to bring your business ideas to life.
Prototypes
Building a Business
4 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Building an MVP
Every entrepreneur gets personally attached to his or her product. Only some of them, though, see how dangerous that is.
By Rashan Dixon
Building a Business
Uncover Market Opportunities With This Roadmapping Strategy
These five steps will help you chart a realistic journey forward and hold yourself accountable along the way.
Building a Business
Stop Obsessing Over Your Prototype and Just Let Customers See It
The feedback you get from a prototype is essential to moving forward with a product or idea.
By Amy Bonsall
Tech
6 Reasons Why You Should Prototype Your Idea Before Developing It
Without a roadmap, your chances of failure increase.
Building a Business
8 Huge Mistakes Most Entrepreneurs Don’t Realize They’re Making
Almost all errors are unconscious until circumstances bring them to light -- often through harsh consequences. Looking these missteps over now, ahead of time, will seem in the future like the height of wisdom.
By Jon Youshaei
Business Funding
How Lauren Bush Lauren Hustled a Customs Agent to Save the First Order of FEED Bags
The founder of the mission-driven FEED looks back on turning her passion project into a fully formed business operation -- and finding the right partners to help the brand grow.
Building a Business
Robert Herjavec on Entrepreneurship, Working with Inventive Kids and Bringing Prototypes to Life
Is your prototype ready for the next step?
Marketing
Don’t Start Marketing Before You’re Ready to Start Selling
Creating a demand for something you can't deliver will hurt your brand reputation and your bottom line.
By George Deeb
Thought Leaders
From Prototype to Production: 3 Things You Must Do
There's no substitute for research. Your success depends on knowing what it costs to create your product and finding the best way to build it.
By David Cann
Business News
Photo of Magic Leap AR Prototype Leaks Out, Backpack and All
Obtained by Business Insider, it claims to show the company's "Product Equivalent" (PEQ) build.
Building a Business
5 Favors to Call in When Launching a Business
Your network of family and friends are your go-to source for help in the early stages. All you have to do is ask.
By Sabine Ghali
Building a Business
Test These 3 Feedback Strategies Before You Launch Your Startup
If you don't validate your business idea with potential customers, you can't know if you're really offering them what they want or need.
By Iman Jalali
Building a Business
Rapid Prototyping: The Best Route to Happy Customers
Transform product development from a guessing game into great market research: 4 ways how.
By Tony Scherba
Tech
5 Ways to Create an Almost-There Prototype Marketing Video
Building it makes your idea real; video captures it visually. Do less of the first and more of the second to test the market sooner.
By Stephen Key
Thought Leaders
The Inventor of the George Foreman Grill Sets the Record Straight
Michael Boehm explains how he created one of the bestselling infomercial products of all time.
By Stephen Key
Business News
These 5 Robotics Startups Are Changing The Way Work Gets Done
Industrial robots don't always get as much attention as their humanoid counterparts, but they are changing the life of humans just as much, if not more.
Building a Business
5 Essentials for Maximizing Results From Seed Capital
The founder's primary job is stretching those first funds to afford a team, a prototype and a marketing plan.
Building a Business
Partners Await Inventors Who Need Help Building Prototypes
Universities and the federal government have programs that provide more help than many inventors could otherwise dream of affording.
By Kedma Ough
Building a Business
Have an Invention? Here’s How to Make It Into an Actual Product. (Infographic)
As the creator of a new product, you need to know the costs so you can weigh the risks and the rewards.
By Laura Entis
Building a Business
Your Mantra in the Startup Chaos Needs to Be ‘First Things First’
Starting a business is an avalanche of things to do, which is why you need to focus on what is most important.
Tech
Scientists Can 3-D Print a New Windpipe on a $2,500 Desktop Machine
Doctors at a New York-based research institute are combining 3-D printed cartilage with living cells to manufacture trachea replacements.
Building a Business
This Shopping Cart of the Future Creepily Follows You Around Stores
Two engineering students in Israel have developed the ultimate shopping cart for the lazy shopper.
Building a Business
France’s Postal Service is Experimenting with Drone Mail Delivery
LaPoste could beat Amazon and Google to the punch.
By Nina Zipkin
Building a Business
Crowdfunding Campaigns Come With a Growing Price Tag
A panoply of new services are being offered to make projects stand out. But an entrepreneur has to be prepared to spend some money.
By Sally Outlaw
Tech
From Eye Shadow to Entire Houses: 7 of the Craziest 3-D Printed Creations Yet
In honor of Martha Stewart, who recently proclaimed her 'love' for 3-D printing, here's a list showcasing the technology's endless and magical possibilities.
By Geoff Weiss
Thought Leaders
So How Will You Ever Get Off the Desert Island?
A business strategist recalls three key business lessons he learned from a mentor whose work had repercussions as far away as the moon.