Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Working on a new product is always an exciting and risky process, even when you have all the data suggesting that the product is a win.

If you're building a product for your new business, you'll first need a solid prototype. This will help you better visualize your concept and start getting necessary feedback from customers or peers.

Whether you are developing a disruptively innovative product or a uniquely repurposed solution, and no matter how clear your idea and vision seem on paper, designing as simple as a paper prototype is ...

How do you close the gap between I wonder and I know? You make a prototype. A prototype is a tool that gives you a chance to investigate your ideas and explore what could, should, or would come next, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Amazon Fire Phone, Google Glass, New Coke and Nintendo’s Virtual Boy: What do all these products have in common? They didn’t sell.

Prototyping is ubiquitous in the product development world these days. Rapid prototyping methods, tools, and techniques are widely applied in the process of creating products. With proper ...

A prototype is an early, trial version of a product/service made to test and improve ideas before the final version is created. Prototype is a preliminary, often incomplete, version of a product, ...

Investors today back more than ideas—they back execution speed and proof of concept. But traditional software builds are slow, expensive, and unpredictable, raising risk for startup backers. That's ...

The Dimension (above) from Stratasys creates prototypes in ABS. The Dimension is used primarily in the design stage, while the FDM Maxum?also by Stratasys?is used to create higher-resolution ...