AS 66: Product DIY for Amazon Private Label with Filip

Today I’ve got Filip Valica  on the show, He has been a mechanical engineer for 12 years, designing, testing, and building products from cradle to grave. He has worked for a broad range of companies – from mom-and-pop small businesses to some of the largest corporations in the US.

What you'll learn?

* How to design products for Amazon Private Label

* Design strategy

* How to build better products

* The entire cycle from beginning to end of product design

* Filip's entreprenuership journey

* Working with existing cashflow

* Research and Development techniques

* Patents, Provisional and non-provisional, what's the difference?

* How Filip went from a full-time enginner to full-time entreprneuer

* Design and Development Pitfalls

* Adding value to your ideas

* Investor discussions for products

* Patent risks and ripoffs

And much more!

Get in touch with Filip:

http://theproductstartup.com

DAVID ALADDIN:  Great to have you on the show, Filip! Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself?

FILIP VALICA:  Sure! I guess in short I’ve been an engineer, as you said, thanks for the introduction; I’ve been an engineer for the last twelve years. I am married with one daughter.

DAVID ALADDIN:  Awesome!

FILIP VALICA:  And recently I was laid off for my full-time corporate gig where I was doing managing like RND teams and product development. And I’ve been, I guess, pivoting over to doing my sight business full-time.

DAVID ALADDIN:  So, you’ve been an engineer for twelve years. I am an engineer as well, so I totally get it. Pretty much Filip has gone through some of the toughest educational courses the World has to offer!  How did that go for you?

FILIP VALICA: I needed it!

DAVID ALADDIN: What was your experience?

FILIP VALICA: Yeah, I didn’t like it all, because I was… I am not a traditional student, I guess, that really enjoys school and does well. A lot of the guys that were in engineering with me, you know, loved all the theoretical type classes. And for me, I was just really hands on. And so, I either did really well in classes and got A’s, if they were like project based, or I got Ds and Cs if I just didn’t enjoy it, because I didn’t do the work.

DAVID ALADDIN:  Was it… Didn’t Einstein get Cs as well?

FILIP VALICA: Yeah, I wish I could compare myself to that! But no, I mean, I think, you know, I didn’t… and I didn’t even know myself that much back then, you know. I definitely did it because I enjoyed taking things apart and putting them back together, and learning about how things worked. But there was a lot of other stuff that went into engineering that I just didn’t, you know, find valuable for me.

AVID ALADDIN:  Just for the audience listening… The way engineering is setup, you are not supposed to get A’s on the courses. You actually do it, so that you… The average student, or the majority of students actually get Cs and Bs, and then you have that one student that’s allowed to get an A, and it’s pretty like stacked against the odds. So, I don’t know… Was it kind of like that when you were growing up…not growing up, but like in school as well?

FILIP VALICA: You know, I think some of the people that I went to school with did really well, they did exceptionally well, you know, they were really the type of people that could go out and drinking the night before, and party, and sometimes even go have a beer during lunch before the test, and still like wreck the curve. And was the guy that was like spending three/four hours a night on homework every night and just struggling to keep up in some class...