Choosing a project to work on

  • Be hard-nosed! Don’t go for what looks fun and cool ONLY
  • Challenge yourself and your teammates
  • Do a little research using your common sense!
  • Can you find other similar products, competitors, or related products, and is this a good or bad thing?
  • Look in Kickstarter and RocketHub. Are there any related projects?
  • Do you believe that you could actually get enough funding through Kickstarter or RocketHub to build a prototype?
  • What would the Sharktank say of it?
  • How big a real problem is this really solving?
  • For who, and do you think those people would be willing to pay for it?
  • How would you get it to them?
  • What kind of price do you think they would be willing to pay?
  • Are you pretty sure this can be productized (that is, not can we make a single one by hand, but can we make a lot of them?)