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Why Product Idea Validation Is Crucial Before Spending Big on Development

Why Product Idea Validation Is Crucial Before Spending Big on Development

Posted on May 02 , 2025 by Renaud Anjoran

When businesses design and manufacture new products, the temptation to dive straight into development is strong. A promising idea comes […]

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Posted in Product Development | Tagged product designproduct developmentprototyping
 
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How to do Qualitative Market Research for a New Product (Our own experience)

Posted on March 17 , 2025 by Renaud Anjoran

When developing a new product, one of the biggest mistakes businesses make is jumping straight into development without validating their […]

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Posted in Product Development | Tagged getting to marketmarket researchnew product launchproduct development
 
How To Do Qualitative Market Research for New Products

How to Line up one-on-one Surveys for Market Discovery [Video]

Posted on January 17 , 2025 by Renaud Anjoran

We needed to line up one-on-one surveys for market discovery for a new tech product, obtaining feedback from American consumers. […]

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Posted in Product Development | Tagged consumer feedbackmarket research
 
Asking For Production RFQs Before Working on Product Design Is It Possible

Asking For Production RFQs Before Working on Product Design? Is It Possible?

Posted on November 06 , 2024 by Renaud Anjoran

We are often contacted by companies that are still early in their product design & development projects and need to […]

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Posted in Product Development | Tagged product development processrfqs
 
Failed Kickstarter Startups That Didn’t Follow A Structured NPI Process

Failed Kickstarter Startups That Didn’t Follow A Structured NPI Process

Posted on September 11 , 2024 by Adrian Leighton

In our earlier blog post, How To Reduce Risks When Developing New Products?, Renaud discussed in a video the risks […]

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Posted in Product Development | Tagged crowdfundingnew product launchNPI process
 
Development Prototypes for Parts Issues and Limitations

Development Prototypes for Parts: Issues and Limitations (2 examples)

Posted on February 19 , 2024 by Paul Adams

In a previous article about the quality standard for prototypes, we explained why most development prototypes don’t need to look […]

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Posted in Product Development | Tagged development prototypesnew product developmentprototyping
 
How To Define Your Quality Standard For Prototypes

How To Define Your Quality Standard For Prototypes?

Posted on February 06 , 2024 by Renaud Anjoran

Not every prototype needs to be perfect, as they fulfill different purposes. We often discuss this topic with our customers […]

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Posted in Product Development | Tagged defectsproduct development processprototypingquality standard
 
18 Electronic Component Selection Steps For Success

18 Electronic Component Selection Steps For Success

Posted on October 31 , 2023 by Andrew Amirnovin

You need to be able to source electronic components for your new product that reach your cost, quality, and reliability […]

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Posted in Product Development | Tagged componentselectronic componentssourcing
 
Product Design Cost 10 Factors That Affect Electronic Products

Product Design Cost: 10 Factors That Affect Electronic Products

Posted on July 11 , 2023 by Andrew Amirnovin

Our head of new product development, Andrew Amirnovin, shares 10 factors that impact your product design cost (with a focus […]

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Posted in Product Development | Tagged design for manufacturingmanufacturing costsnew product developmentproduct design
 
What Is Your Product R&D Project’s Structure When Working With Agilian

What Is Your Product R&D Project’s Structure When Working With Agilian?

Posted on June 28 , 2023 by Renaud Anjoran

Agilian is a contract manufacturer that also supports customers with developing their products, too, before mass producing them. When you […]

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Posted in Product Development | Tagged product designproduct developmentproduct r&dworking
 
DFM Approaches OEM vs Contract Manufacturer

DFM Approaches: OEM vs Contract Manufacturer

Posted on June 12 , 2023 by Renaud Anjoran

Both OEMs and CMs follow different DFM approaches. Let’s look at what Design For Manufacturing is, its benefits, and how […]

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Posted in Product Development | Tagged design for manufacturingDFMproduct design
 
Key Attributes Investors Look For In Promising IoT Hardware Startups [Report]

Key Attributes Investors Look For In Promising IoT Hardware Startups [Report]

Posted on May 29 , 2023 by Agilian

In this article, we’ll explore the key attributes that investors look for in promising IoT hardware startups. To bring these […]

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Posted in Product Development | Tagged IoT productsobtaining investmentstartups
 
5 Tips for Increasing Profits on ‘Cheap’ Products

5 Tips for Increasing Profits on ‘Cheap’ Products

Posted on May 11 , 2023 by Andrew Amirnovin

It doesn’t take long to find low-cost products online from a variety of Chinese manufacturers. I searched for ‘earbuds’ on […]

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Posted in Product Development | Tagged product designproduct developmentsourcing from china
 
SCRUM for Hardware Design and Development

SCRUM for Hardware Design and Development

Posted on March 27 , 2023 by Renaud Anjoran

Developing an innovative hardware product is a complex project. And most of those projects take much longer than initially planned. […]

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Posted in Product Development | Tagged agile designhardware productsnew product developmentscrum
 
How To Ethically Create A Similar Product To One Already On The Market

How To Ethically Create A Similar Product To One Already On The Market?

Posted on March 15 , 2023 by Renaud Anjoran

Almost every product niche has a variety of different brands’ products to choose from which are fairly similar. OK, there […]

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Posted in Product Development | Tagged new product developmentproduct designproduct teardown
 
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