Re: If its been done, how do I go about doing it better?

"Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> I see a real market niche for a certain type of product. This product
> has been built and sold on the market in very small numbers. The
> demand for this product is driving the price out of the roof and
> making it very hard for folks like myself to buy, but nevertheless, we
> buy because we need.
>
> I am interested in building a product to compete because I believe I
> can "build it better, faster, stronger" and CHEAPER!!
>
> I'm a software programmer, not an engineer, or a production manager,
> or a marketing specialist.
>
> Where do I begin?

Reed,

If you don't have any experience or knowledge in engineering, production or
marketing, you sound like somebody who just has an "idea". If your "idea"
involves getting somebody else to do the work for you, then you'll never
make it.

You have to take the hard path. Buy one of these things, if you can. Take it
apart. Figure out how to manufacture it. Get pricing. Read up on business
plans. Rework the design as per your idea. Map out marketing and
distribution channels. Figure out what you have to do in order to get this
idea of yours off the ground.

You know, there may be a monopoly on the market because the entity
manufacturing this product has a patent. If so, it doesn't matter how much
cheaper/better/faster you can make this thing, you have no rights to do so.

Good Luck!

Mike Turco