{"id":731,"date":"2012-09-27T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/?p=731"},"modified":"2012-09-27T17:24:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T00:24:35","slug":"before-it-is-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/2012\/09\/before-it-is-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Before it is too late, I should&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The electrical engineer thinks I need to design sensor boards so I can build up a dozen prototypes: part selection, schematic, layout, PCB fabrication and assembly. \u00a0I should do it soon so I have prototypes to try out and demonstrate to potential customers.<\/p>\n<p>The software engineer thinks I should keep repairing my initial prototype so I can debug the heuristics. I should verify the efficacy of the product before sinking too much time into the idea.<\/p>\n<p>The patent agent wants to know why I haven&#8217;t finished the disclosure form, let alone the patent application. I need to do that before I share the idea with potential customers\/partners.<\/p>\n<p>The business person thinks I need to refine the idea with a clinical-style study, using powerpoint decks to talk to potential users, \u00a0see if the idea needs modification before continuing development (and seeing if they&#8217;ll sign up to purchase). If I can&#8217;t demonstrate a real market, it isn&#8217;t worth doing the rest.<\/p>\n<p>The marketing person thinks I should make a looks-like model (doesn&#8217;t matter if it works) and that it should be beautiful, no rough edges, incredibly well-designed. My hot glue and electrical tape prototype is no good; if I can&#8217;t make it alluring, no one will consider buying it and any potential market will evaporate.<\/p>\n<p>The subject matter expert is moving to North Carolina and doesn&#8217;t have time to have lunch or discuss the idea. I suppose I&#8217;m glad that she doesn&#8217;t have another thing for me to do. And yet all the work I&#8217;ve done for the last few days is in preparation for when I do see her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Capture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Calgon, take me away!\" src=\"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Capture-300x226.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electrical engineer thinks I need to design sensor boards so I can build up a dozen prototypes: part selection, schematic, layout, PCB fabrication and assembly. \u00a0I should do it soon so I have prototypes to try out and demonstrate to potential customers. The software engineer thinks I should keep repairing my initial prototype so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,43,26],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adventures-in-tech","tag-entrepreneur","tag-whiney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}