6x6 Project Blog
Let’s start from the beginning.
2023-06-09The purpose of this blog is to record the success/failures of a workshop I am embarking upon with a couple of my mates. It will have personal reflection and show the development of design with each project I take on.
This is the 6x6 Project - Build and launch or stay a brokie.
The goal of the workshop/challenge is to imagine, execute and launch 6 business ideas in 6 months.
Project started on a Monday. We met in a rented meeting room at a local cafe. The first exercise was to spend 1 hour and come up with 20 money-making concepts. I went in with two objectives:
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Have fun, no one wants to work on something boring.
- Leave my old ideas at home, come up with all new ideas.
After the hour, I had more than 20 new very strong ideas. Several of which all fall into a motorbike accessories category which could come together as a company. Others, fell into high-end collectables, this would also be a good low-volume high-priced business.
Day 1 took more time than we expected so well all agreed to meet up again in two days on Wednesday. I had left day 1 thinking I would peruse the motorbike accessories company. The projects were reasonable to launch and within my funds.
Wednesday (Day 2) was to narrow down our 20 ideas into 6 with objectives and descriptions laid out for each. We all went through talking in more detail about the 6 we chose. I went with the motorbike accessories (x3) and then planned to setup the company site and store in the following 3 months.
Many people went with projects or companies they already had going for them. By the end of the day, I too went this route. Last year I had come up with 4 unique and novel dry-herb vaporizer ideas and several accessories to accompany them. I have been reaching out to companies to get some traction on them although haven’t had good presentation material to show off. After hearing everyone else’s plans, I decided to switch mine to get the vaporizers out of the way. My goals for month 1 are as follows:
- Finish detailed CAD model of my first dry-herb vaporizer concept. Model should have the whole device, electronics and components laid out in a (pre-DFM) manufacturable package, be ready to send out for photo-realistic renderings.
- Finish compiling my whole contact list of potential companies to partner with.
- Setup blog to update progress on the development of my vaporizers over the course of the workshop.
- Make 4 blog posts on newly built blog.