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Developing New Products

* From  Entrepreneurship For Dummies
Date: Friday, August 12 2005

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Maybe you're not developing completely digital products. Even if you're doing something as traditional as a new toy, a line of apparel, or a mechanical device of some sort, the Internet makes it easier for you to collaborate with partners in any part of the world.

Design is not the only task you can accomplish by using the Internet. Today you can send your completed designs — say for a new part for your machine — to a rapid prototyping shop, where the design enters a computerized prototyping machine that spits out your part in metal or some other medium.

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