Prototyping: what founders and startups NEED to know

Are you a founder of a new physical product who wants to prototype? Beware: this highly money-draining activity can cripple your new business unless you are very careful in your approach.

Our framework (TheSigmaSuite®)  to offer you the opportunity of professionally-led prevention and save your much-needed cash.

Should you meet our pre-defined criteria, it would be unlikely that we cannot save you tens of thousands during the concept-commercialisation processes.

That’s just why we have spent years designing a standardised approach.

Our framework is a secure and robust pathway for you to follow, based on many years of experience in product-production, common patterns of real-life mistakes among founders and of course its foundation is in Lean Six Sigma (fear not: our framework is simple to follow and implement).

Based on experience, we know our framework saves the average start-up tens of thousands of pounds, IF you meet the following conditions:

• Your product takes a physical form
• Your product encapsulates some form of end-user functionality (therefore disqualifying products like candles and/or food production)
• Your product AND business are both NEW
• Your internal skillset is limited (as in most startups)
• You are the designer OR are outsourcing the design to a product designer
• Your product mix is of high (customer) demand and low (product) variation
• You personally acknowledge the value in professionally-led prevention

Startups can access know-how and expertise through our framework; magic that would otherwise only be available by hiring a range of costly skillsets.

Getting off on the right footing is so unbelievably important at this stage. Prevention is cheap and cheerful; cure can be crippling in every respect.

This course covers some fundamental basics on how to strike the right balance for your unique business and product when it comes to prototyping. You won’t make the mistakes that many founders do!