How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas into Products That Build Successful Businesses: Turn Ideas into Products That Build Successful Businesses
Jules Pieri
Apr 2019 · McGraw Hill Professional
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This step-by-step DIY guide shows today’s entrepreneurs how to create and launch new products, package and market them to consumers, and build a thriving business.Thanks to high-speed Internet, game-changing technology, and innovative new platforms, individuals with vision and heart can go from idea to marketplace on a shoestring budget. In How We Make Stuff Now, Jules Pieri—cofounder and CEO of The Grommet, a product launch platform that helps innovative products reach a community of millions—takes readers through the entire consumer product creation process, showing how individual Makers, inventors, and entrepreneurs have utilized technology, the Maker Movement, and perseverance to turn ideas for innovative consumer goods into thriving businesses, breaking the rules of traditional retailing in the process. Jules details what goes into each of the steps they take: ideation, education, research, design and documentation, prototyping, funding, manufacturing, packaging, marketing, distribution, logistics, payments, customer service, financial and inventory management, and growth. Using case studies of successful startups, she reveals how entrepreneurs overcome obstacles, solve challenges, and rise above them to deliver innovations.If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, Maker, or inventor, the first crucial step in your journey to turning your ideas into products that build thriving businesses is learning How We Make Stuff Now.
This step-by-step DIY guide shows today’s entrepreneurs how to create and launch new products, package and market them to consumers, and build a thriving business.Thanks to high-speed Internet, game-changing technology, and innovative new platforms, individuals with vision and heart can go from i...
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About the author
Jules Pieri is cofounder and CEO of The Grommet, a site that has launched more than two thousand consumer products since 2008. The company’s Citizen CommerceTM movement is reshaping how products are discovered, shared, and bought. Jules started her career as an industrial designer for technology companies and was an executive at Keds, Stride Rite, and Playskool. She was named one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in 2013 and Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Interesting Entrepreneurs in 2014. She is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business School. Jules frequently speaks on consumer trends and technologies, design, and entrepreneurship. She has presented at HBS, SCAD, MIT, and at conferences including SXSW, PwC Women’s Conference, Internet Retailer, and the Conference on World Affairs. She’s also been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, and many other media outlets.
Jules Pieri is cofounder and CEO of The Grommet, a site that has launched more than two thousand consumer products since 2008. The company’s Citizen CommerceTM movement is reshaping how products are discovered, shared, and bought. Jules started her career as an industrial designer for technology ...
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