Big business band synth8/23/2023 ![]() 64-voice polyphonic beat everyone, first synth with ADAT out when that was a big deal, matrix modulation designed by the guys who built the Matrix 12/Xpander. I worked at Alesis when we debuted the Quadrasynth. But holy crap, the D50 presets blew everyone away. The V50 arguably had much more going on under the hood. The Roland D50 and Yamaha V50 came out around the same time. The first 10 presets all have to blow people away. Most important thing about selling a synth, in my experience, are the presets. i'm in DC also, feel free to pm me if you'd like to talk further. if you don't have the necessary design skills maybe you can find someone who does that shares your vision and is willing to join up with you to pursue it. in my opinion the safest route is to bootstrap it yourself, on your own timetable, and make no promises to anyone else and do no marketing until you have something real that you yourself really believe in. I don't know anything about kickstarter or crowd-funding models, maybe that could be a possibility though i fear that would just be pushing potential troubles down the road, with impatient funders making the inevitable setbacks much harder to recover from. I am not trying to be a downer here but i believe if you are really going to go down this road you should do it with your eyes wide open and approach it as realistically as possible and i just don't believe VC-funding is going to be an option for you. has there even ever been a venture-funded synthesizer company? or one with a management team with zero experience and no new technology or any unique intellectual property of its own? and with the investor coming in prior to any sort of working prototype, based on a spec sheet and mockup? this is just not the kind of investment that VC's make. No offense but i really don't see VC funding as a viable option here. It feels a little like suicide but the possibilities are beyond my imagination. ![]() Once we get the funding for prototype (assuming we have an MVP) then we could do a Kickstarter campaign to get to production or have enough validation with VCs to fund production.Īlso, we're kicking around an idea for a website that I think could open source the entire identity of the company to the user community. I could probably sell my car and get us to prototype but my kids need to get to pre-school. If any one knows where the venture capitalists are hiding please let me know. One downer about startups is that no one can collect a paycheck until we can secure the funding. Once I finish scripting the presentation I would like to do a series of Skype presentations with the user community to either validate a minimum viable product or send us back to the customer development phase (as opposed to product development, our mission is to design around users rather than what I think is my clever idea for a synth or a set of affordable bundled features).Ĭurrently I'm looking to recruit an experienced project manager (anyone friends with Ed Cornett?) and a small core group of engineers, preferably those who feel comfortable helping present to VCs. Hey, we think (hope) we've got the final designs.
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