Sanity checks..

...on all levels of your business.

Now we've been sitting in our "bubble" in the office for over a month, developing a board game. We are engineers, but engineers are so varied and so differentiated in their knowledge. Making a game that will make everybody happy is not so easy when you have to take into account all the different specialties.
That's where the sanity checks are important! We have had three sessions now with different engineering students testing our game, and we've gotten a lot of feedback on the questions and the game. So thank you to the people that had an awesome time (or so we hope) testing our game!

Another thing we've learned is that you'll not only need feedback on your finished product, but also on the entire road to the product. We've talked to several lawyers, patent experts, product developers and distributors, and every time we talk to them, a new problem is formed. This saves us tons of time, and allows us to focus on problem solving instead of "problem discovering"..

So, talk to people! Just pick up the phone, send emails, talk to friends and get references to new people.

You might think you know enough, but the beauty of experience is that there's always someone who knows more.
That's also why this is so much fun, and also pretty tiring. It's an enormous learning process for us. And even though the going gets tough once in a while, we will definitely come out on the other side more enlightened and knowledgeable than when we started!