6 Reasons Why Startup Prototypes Attract Investors

Posted by martinzwilling under Startups
From http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4380 days ago

It’s a long way from an entrepreneur’s “idea” to a working product with a real market and paying customers. A necessary intermediate step for proof of concept, credibility with potential investors, and communication with your team, is a working prototype. Building a prototype should be an early and high priority task for every startup.

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Written by HeatherStone
4380 days ago

But how does a shoe-string, bootstrapped business of say, just a couple people put a working prototype together of a concept, an idea they may have, when the actual end product lies outside their skillset? I mean, if you have an idea for something that needs to be machined, that maybe works off a software program, and you only know how to do the software part, how do you get the other piece of the prototype, especially without revealing your entire idea to someone who might take it and run with it themselves? Seems to me you're going to need money, and therein lies the rub. Just wondering,

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