Mike McKearin on Fishing, Family, and Designing the GoReel

Mike McKearin, 35 min listen

This lesson is an episode of On the Blue Ridge.

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What you'll get

A Pisgah Forest family tested a pocket fishing reel on 3D printers in their garage until strangers kept asking to buy one, then checked demand at a vendor event before committing. A good model for testing a physical product cheaply.

Do this week

Make the cheapest working version of your product or service you can, and put it in front of five strangers this week.