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Acquiring a customizable/generic product
I am looking at modifying a wireless scale that can transmit its gathered information wirelessly. There are plenty of patented products out there that do this, I am looking for a 'blank template' that ...
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Inventing a simple medical device and getting a patent before talking with a medical device builder
My wife is a surgical nurse and noticed a particular difficulty that surgeons have been having with a specific procedure. She has a beautifully simple idea for a relatively simple device that makes ...
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Customer development for offline startup?
Customer development is a nice way to build a company through iterations. However, all blog posts and articles that I have read depict software and web startups which can be developed through ...
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Getting Useful Customer Input
In general, being able to tweak your product to better suit customer needs is a good thing. The problem is, sometimes it's difficult to get input from customers that is actually useful in that regard, ...
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How do I release an RFQ
I need a materials supplier and have an RFQ put together. How should I go about distributing to potential suppliers? Should I track down potential providers and email it to them? Is there some ...
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When does an artist need to pay sales tax?
As a free-lance artist, tax preparers tell me I am like a printer and or graphics artist ... a service and no sales tax is required. The bulk of my work is portraits, murals, and some graphic design ...
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Sales tax for artists?
Are artists who create "fine art" (not commercial art) required to collect sales tax if selling directly to customer through website, ebay, local art shows, booth at art show?
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How Do I Go From An Online Digital Product to Store Shelves?
So I've got a digital product that has a website and the marketing and user community for it are alive and well.
Now how do I go about breaking into that next level? How do I get it on the shelves of ...