Create a Successful Product with Your Invention Idea with Kevin Mako
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
President of MAKO Design and Invent, Est1999, the first company providing world-class end-to-end physical consumer product development tailored to startups, small manufacturers, & home inventors. Host of The Product Startup Podcast.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Prioritize energy. Everyday, put in a little bit of effort to the most important things of getting your product launch, and you'll get tremendous drive over the coming months.
2. The number one thing when you think about developing your product is FOCUS! In hardware, it is important because it is difficult at the end of the development cycle to make quick adjustments if you haven't focused.
3. Crowdfunding is a phenomenal tool for hardware startups. You are putting your finished product prototype and have people who are interested in these to pre-purchase your product, then use the money to fund the production run.
Get a FREE product consultation, a design and engineering review, and get personally mentored by Kevin Mako for any hardware startup that hires MakoDesign - One Time Offer for Fire Nation
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Boom! Shake the room, Fire Nation! JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire brought |
| 0:07.5 | to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network with great shows like Being Boss. Today we'll be |
| 0:13.9 | focusing on creating a successful product with your invention idea. To drop these value |
| 0:19.7 | bombs, I have brought Kevin Macco on the mic. Kevin is a president of Macco Design and |
| 0:25.2 | Invent established in 1999 and it's the first company providing world class and to end |
| 0:31.1 | physical consumer product development tailored to startups, small manufacturers and home |
| 0:36.3 | inventors. He is also the host of the product startup podcast. Today we're talking about |
| 0:41.7 | how a home in the better can get a new invention to market, what the current status is of |
| 0:45.4 | the invention industry, the single biggest tip for developing a new product and especially |
| 0:50.5 | how can you get funding for your product and so much more when we get back from taking |
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| 1:19.3 | for business professionals who seek the best education and inspiration on how to grow |
| 1:23.3 | a business. Whether you're looking for marketing, sales, service or operational guidance, |
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| 1:31.7 | Podcast Network at hubspot.com slash podcast network. Kevin, say what's up to Fire Nation |
| 1:39.9 | and share something about yourself that most people don't know. |
| 1:45.8 | It's up Fire Nation. Very excited to be on the show today. Thanks a lot for the question. |
| 1:51.9 | Before the last 12 months, I used to be on a flight once or twice a week going to our |
| 1:55.5 | various offices, keynotes, all that sort of stuff. But given that I haven't been able to |
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