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Define the question better.
Not sure how to get started.... with what exactly?
Manufacturing? Importing? E-Commerce?
If you just want to figure out how to make the thing, call up someone locally who think might be able to make the thing and ask them. If they can't do it they'll say "I can't do it, but an XXXX kind of person could probably do it" Then you call up an XXXX person and ask them the same thing. Repeat until you find the right person that can do it.
We do this monthly to solve various problems in our business. Paint issues... google and phone calls. Welding issues... google and phone calls. Whatever the problem of the week is, we just go figure it out.
Last month I got an MBA in spring manufacturing by going to a spring factory and saying "here's our unit, help me fix our problem". This month it's magnets. So I brought an engineer to our warehouse and he said "do x, y, z with this xxx kind of magnet". If I can't figure out an electrical problem, I give a unit to an electrical engineer and they pick it apart and figure out what the issue is.
Find people who know things that you don't know anything about and talk to them.
Not sure how to get started.... with what exactly?
Manufacturing? Importing? E-Commerce?
If you just want to figure out how to make the thing, call up someone locally who think might be able to make the thing and ask them. If they can't do it they'll say "I can't do it, but an XXXX kind of person could probably do it" Then you call up an XXXX person and ask them the same thing. Repeat until you find the right person that can do it.
We do this monthly to solve various problems in our business. Paint issues... google and phone calls. Welding issues... google and phone calls. Whatever the problem of the week is, we just go figure it out.
Last month I got an MBA in spring manufacturing by going to a spring factory and saying "here's our unit, help me fix our problem". This month it's magnets. So I brought an engineer to our warehouse and he said "do x, y, z with this xxx kind of magnet". If I can't figure out an electrical problem, I give a unit to an electrical engineer and they pick it apart and figure out what the issue is.
Find people who know things that you don't know anything about and talk to them.