Steve Grundahl founded Midwest Prototyping back in 2001. Today, they are one of the biggest private facilities in the United States for additive manufacturing of new physical products. Steve also just hosted the Kansas version of Make48 at their Wichita shop. In this session, Steve is poised to share some valuable knowledge on how inventors, startups, and small manufacturers can use 3D printing and additive manufacturing to streamline their first production runs and the advantages of manufacturing this way.

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Robert Irwin just wrapped up almost 3 years working as the Lead Industrial Designer at Amazon creating the Amazon Shopping Cart. Before that, he worked for many years as a freelancer, with agencies and at large corporations, doing industrial design and leading physical product design teams. Today, Robert is going to share his valuable insight into how inventors, startups, and small manufacturers can ensure that their product development process goes smoothly to create the best version of their product by knowing how industrial design and product engineering can best work together.

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Rhett Silverstein is the Founder of Hegemon, an agency that represents consumer product manufacturers in partnering with big brands, celebrities, and athletes. Before founding Hegemon, he was a brand licensing agent at Beanstock, and before that a New York lawyer. Today, Rhett is going to share some valuable knowledge on how inventors, startups, and small manufacturers can license big brands and celebrities for your products.

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Blair Severn worked for 4 years as the national manager for Sony Stores.  He managed not just marketing, but also how to best drive product sales in those stores.  Before that he worked for years doing a similar thing at Consumer Gas Appliance stores.  He really knows in-store product sales.  Today Blair is going to share some valuable knowledge on how inventors, startups, and small manufacturers can think about how to best design and promote your product to be able to beat the competition and sell more units after successfully getting a deal into a retail store chain, and a lot of this is applicable to online sales too.

Click this link for This Episode's Full Info Page: https://productstartup.com/podcast/080-how-to-maximize-your-products-sales-in-retail-stores/

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Jan Cavelle was the Founder and CEO for 20 years of Jan Cavelle Furniture Company which designed, manufactured, and sold their own furniture to wholesalers all over the world. She is also the author of Scale for Success, a book that helps startups go from their first sales to becoming a multi-million dollar empire. Today Jan is going to share some valuable knowledge on how inventors, startups, and small manufacturers can make their first sales by just picking up the phones. She will then go into some tips on how to scale your business, and how to learn from some of the best sales techniques in a very old industry.

Click this link for This Episode's Full Info Page: https://productstartup.com/podcast/079-how-to-start-selling-your-product-then-scale/

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Tom Patterson is the Founder of multiple companies in the hardware space.  1. He owns a number of e-commerce brands and even owns his own manufacturing facility for one of his clothing lines. 2. He also owns an e-commerce agency that helps products scale from zero all the way up to 9-figure online sales.  Today Tom is going to share some valuable knowledge on how inventors, startups, and small manufacturers should consider selling directly to customers to start building their product line, and how to do it well.

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West Stringfellow rose the ranks in the early days of Amazon emerging as Head of Product.  He has also been an executive in innovation at Target, Paypal, Visa, & Rosetta Stone.  He even ran a Techstars incubator for a couple years.  Now West runs HowDo, a completely free education platform to help anyone become a successful entrepreneur.  Today West is going to share some valuable knowledge on how inventors, startups, and small manufacturers should focus on understanding the customer to gain strong insight into early product development and marketing planning. He will explain how some of the best customer-facing companies in the world do this, and how you can learn from that to do this for your next hardware product.

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Bill Carlin runs a massive hardware product warehouse, fulfillment, distribution, and logistics company called ShipMate Fulfillment.  They do everything from receiving your shipment from the manufacturer, to sorting and packing, then getting individual units to your customers, handling all returns, and everything in between.  Simply put, Bill is a great knowledge resource for inventors, startups, and small manufacturers to understand, plan for, and best execute on their fulfillment logistics.

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Victoria Wieck started from nothing and grew her jewelry business to over $500 Million in sales. She has over 30 years of experience in retail sales, and 20 years in selling on TV. She was a weekly host on the HSN and QVC for many years, and now a monthly host on the ShopHQ TV show. She is also host of the Million Dollar Hobbies podcast. Today, Victoria is going to share some valuable knowledge on how inventors, startups, and small manufacturers can turn their hobbies or invention ideas into multi-million dollar international businesses, including best practices for ideating an invention, getting it to market, scaling it into a brand, and conquering the market.

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Rob Crowder is the Head of Product at Nutromics, a high-growth medical sensor device company. Rob has over 20 years in the product development field. He has worked for General Electric, PWC, and more. Today Rob is going to share some valuable knowledge on how inventors, startups, and small manufacturers can learn from the best practices on user journey mapping for medical devices - How to apply these MedTech best practices to your next product, whether it’s a medical device or any other physical product invention.

Click this link for This Episode's Full Info Page: https://productstartup.com/podcast/074-medical-device-product-development-best-practices/

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• Company Website: https://www.nutromics.com.au/

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