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b'Nick Allen is an industrial design at Mako Design.\\xa0Nick has been designing products for 15 years, working with over 100 products and earning multiple design awards including the coveted Red Dot award.\\xa0Today Nick is going to share some valuable knowledge for inventors, startups, and small manufacturers on how to start working on a project with your hardware product development partner so that you can maximize the value of the relationship, thus leading to creating a top notch product and even more important, a successful hardware startup business\\nToday you will hear us talk about:\\n\\nFocus on your vision.\\xa0Know what you know, don\\u2019t worry about what you don\\u2019t know.\\n\\nLeverage your experience.\\n\\nWhat the product needs to do and what it needs to do.\\n\\nWrite it down.\\n\\nHave a basic sketch of your idea\\n\\nBullet point notes on your customer\\n\\nMust have, must not have.\\n\\nDesign intent\\n\\nAccept pushback from the design engineers.\\n\\nMust have vs want to have features / MVP\\n\\nWork with your design team to reign in the feature creep.\\n\\nTeam effort in original features\\n\\nYou can always release version 2.0\\n\\n\\nEPISODE LINKS:\\nNick Allen Links:\\nLinkedIn | Mako Design\\n\\nThe Product Startup Podcast Links:\\nhttps://www.ProductStartup.com/\\nInstagram | LinkedIn | Facebook Page | Facebook Group | Pinterest | Twitter | YouTube\\n\\nMako Design Links:\\nhttps://www.makodesign.com/\\nYouTube | Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook | Pinterest | Twitter\\n\\nKevin Mako Links:\\nInstagram | LinkedIn | Quora | Facebook | Twitter\\n\\nPartner: PTC\\u2019s best-in-class software solutions Onshape: The only cloud-native product development platform that delivers full-featured computer-aided design (CAD), integrated product data management (PDM) and enterprise analytics in a single system, and Creo: 3D CAD solution that provides designers with the most innovative tools to build better products faster, such as generative design, additive manufacturing, real-time simulation, IIoT, and augmented reality.\\n\\nProducer: MAKO Design + Invent is the original firm providing world-class consumer product development services tailored to startups, small manufacturers, and inventors. Simply put, we are the leading one-stop-shop for developing your physical product from idea to store shelves, all in a high-quality, cost-effective, and timely manner. We operate as one powerhouse 30-person product design team spread across 4 offices to serve you (Austin, Miami, San Francisco, & Toronto). We have full-stack in-house industrial design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, patent referral, prototyping, and manufacturing services. To assist our startup and inventor clients, in addition to above, we help with business strategy, product strategy, marketing, and sales/distribution for all consumer product categories.'