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  1. RightyTighty

    Progress Thread /// Designing & Manufacturing Physical Products

    EXECUTION 
    Bingo! Yeah, I was telling that to myself as much as to you. We are @Andy Black ‘s classic “batcave engineers”.
  2. RightyTighty

    Progress Thread /// Designing & Manufacturing Physical Products

    EXECUTION 
    I don’t necessarily agree. The minimal feedback you’ve gotten is 100% opinion; what you want is data. With only a little more time and effort you can find out if potential customers would at least give up an email address for future notification. At the very least I would talk to RV dealers...
  3. RightyTighty

    We sometimes fire employees, should we fire a client also?

    MINDSET 
    In my years of consulting I fired several clients. One was a great guy but incredibly disorganized and in a thin-margin niche. I had several candid conversations with him about the need for profitability, and finally told him I’d rather be his friend than his consultant and I could no longer...
  4. RightyTighty

    Starting a healthy snack business, first sales!

    NOTABLE! EXECUTION 
    It looks like your 100 days of having a free room is about over; how will this affect you? I hope it doesn’t hinder you from continuing to move forward. And while I’d certainly call your project a success, are there any hoops you have to jump to convince your sponsor?
  5. RightyTighty

    Am I taking this too far? Idea/personal feedback

    IDEA 
    This data is worthless. The only meaningful data is that which is backed by the consumer having some skin in the game. A landing page, or flyer with QR code, to gather emails would require people to put more on the table than a passing opinion and would therefore be much more meaningful. You...
  6. RightyTighty

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Look’s like MJ is going to have to re-write TFLM and insert a new chapter, “The Totally Effing Stupid Lane”. A USA Today article about America’s retirement crisis states that three quarters of Americans are concerned about “not being able to maintain their standard of living” in retirement...
  7. RightyTighty

    Simply stuck...

    INTRO 
    You will need to risk your money, but not with the amount of risk that you think. Hopefully, in the seven years since you read TMFL you’ve come up with several viable ideas. I recommend you read “The Mom Test” and “The Right It”. @Two Dog has recommended “Will It Fly” as well, so check it out...
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    How to determine if it’s worth continuing to develop my SaaS product?

    MARKETING 
    Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. A lot of people think any kind of cold-calling is “out there”. But if you try it you’ll find out that people are more respectful of an innovator working on improving value than a cold-calling salesman trying to push a commodity. I don’t deal with digital...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Just checked out Contra. A few glitches in signup. Unfortunately (for me), the only technical freelancers posting seem to all be related to digital content. Probably some good opportunities for others!
  10. RightyTighty

    How to determine if it’s worth continuing to develop my SaaS product?

    MARKETING 
    Dig deep. They created an account so you have their email. One alternative would be to carefully craft an email explaining how you’re trying to add value to the domain and requesting a phone call to discuss the app and what they really need. BUT….I’d recommend doing it the hard way. From the...
  11. RightyTighty

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    This could be really helpful. Vetting and digging through suppliers is usually a grueling process. While it should help product searches, I bet that (by design) it will do a lousy job of separating suppliers from true manufacturers...
  12. RightyTighty

    Get Fired for Severance?

    SLOWLANE 
    I definitely would NOT hang around displaying poor attitude and performance, waiting to get fired. You’d be reinforcing both poor ethics and a losing mindset. Your reputation should not be for sale. You didn’t say how many hours your job requires or how intense the work is. Has the work become...
  13. RightyTighty

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Heads up for those sourcing products from China. The Biden Administration's plan to move the goalpost (disallowing tariff exemptions on deminimis orders) as a means of pushing back against Chinese B2C marketplaces would likely affect B2B de minimis orders from Alibaba as well (no details...
  14. RightyTighty

    How to determine if it’s worth continuing to develop my SaaS product?

    MARKETING 
    If you haven’t had a conversation with every one of the users who bailed you need to get on it! you have a decent test sample and you need to find out if they were really potential customers, what lead them to disappear, and what they NEED. You will likely learn more from them than from...
  15. RightyTighty

    Stuck while a task is delegated!

    EXECUTION 
    Read or listen to “The Mom Test“ to learn how to engage people about your idea to get meaningful feedback. Then read ”The Right It” to learn methods for testing ideas before you invest a lot of effort and money in them. It is a statistical fact that 80-90% of business ideas fail - this includes...
  16. RightyTighty

    Guys, would this be feasible?

    IDEA 
    I recommend you sign on to the Inventors Meetup next Sunday. It’s a one hour open forum of FLF members at different stages of product development - and always includes a few folks who haven’t yet started anything and are just feeling out the process to decide if it’s right for them. Given your...
  17. RightyTighty

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    I had a boss once who told me, “I don’t want to hear from you or about you.” That’s pretty much what they’re telling you. Think “Shoemaker’s elves”. They want the work done efficiently and competently with no BS. Period. A long time ago, I worked at the headquarters of one of the major oil...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    $58,000 in prize money! Great way to exercise your brain and possibly earn some cash. https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/19/travel/switzerland-munitions-removal-scli-intl/index.html
  19. RightyTighty

    I am a fastlaner. I am SOOOOO fastlaner that...

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Hell, I’m taking stuff out of the box to inspect it and putting notes in my phone about possible value skews.
  20. RightyTighty

    find out your products maximum market capacity in order to verify your need.

    CHAT QUESTION 
    “Need“ can be subjective. The ultimate question is will people BUY it? What leads you to believe that the question may now be irrelevant? What are your value skews? And congratulations on having an idea that you think is a “winner”! Developing a physical product is a long and tortuous, but very...

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