We need your help!
We did it! Our team is in the finals for IdeaBlob. And now we need your help. Please, please, please take a minute or two and vote for us. Every vote gets us closer to the $10,000 prize. Precise instructions on how to vote can be found here.
Winning IdeaBlob will definitely open some doors for us. Right now, we’re paying for everything out of pocket, which does limit our reach. Although our stove is designed to be very low cost, the prototypes do cost a non-trivial amount of money. (Raw materials cost more money when you’re not buying in bulk, and there’s some equipment we don’t have access to unless we buy shop time.) But, the big cost is travel.
If you’ve read many of our blog entries, you know that our entire process revolves around end-users. To do this, we need to work very closely with partners in the country, and we need to talk to our actual users. Both of these necessitate at least one trip up front to do needs finding and to get face time with potential partners and to create a plan for our collaboration. It’s not easy to do this without money for travel.
There are other avenues to funding, but every hour we spend trying to fund ourselves is an hour we can’t spend making our stove better. It’s our hope that, with your support, we can win this and continue focusing on what really matters. That said, we’d love to hear suggestions on other avenues of funding! As always, you can get ahold of us at team@3brickdesign.com.
Thanks for your continuing support!
Tags: funding, ideablob, needs finding, prototyping, travel, user-centered design, vote
