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Rick Lytel PhD
Owner, First Degree Innovation
- Technology executive specializing in leading scientific innovations from the lab to applications.
- Adept at recognizing promising new technologies and nascent market opportunities.
- Accomplished in photonics, computers, materials, and information technologies.
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Rick Lytel PhD Expertise
Owner, First Degree Innovation
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- Evaluating the scientific veracity of a product or technology.
- Does the science work? Are you working on something that can actually be realized in a product or service without violating any physical laws?
- What problems will you encounter with your technology? Reliability? Functionality? Cost and availability?
- What are the competing technologies? How soon must you get yours through development to market to make a viable business?
- Evaluating the feasibility of developing a product or technology.
- What will it take to make your product or service reliable? Can it even be done? How do you manufacture it, and how can you test it?
- How long will it take, how many people,how much money will it require? How will you know when it is done?
- What’s the best way to develop it? By yourself? With partnerships? Do you need other leverage?
- What’s the competition doing while you’re out there with your new technology? Do you have any chance in the world of getting it to market while the window is open and before somebody else does?
- Evaluating reality vs. unreality in your business plan.
- How do you know who the potential customers are for your product or technology, and what do they really want? How do you listen to the voice of the customer?
- Do you really have the engineering capability to deliver what the customer wants?
- How do you accurately estimate the engineering time that will be required? Is that accurately built into the product development and business plan?
- How do you accurately evaluate the funding that will be required?
- Evaluating the competitive landscape for your technology or product.
- What is really "new" about your product?
- What technology-equivalent products are already in the marketplace or in development?
- What are the existing roadmaps for developing technologies and devices, products and systems that will compete with your product?
- A company's IP position and what role IP plays in the business model.
- How can IP be leveraged for business development?
- How can IP be used to competitive advantage?
- How can IP be leveraged for business development?
- Finding leverage for startups.
- How do you find partners to develop your product or take it to market?
- When and how do you decide to make or buy?
- How do you find viable M&A targets?
- How do you find partners to develop your product or take it to market?
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