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After years of tweaking Scrum for our processes, here’s our thought on what Scrum does to the products we develop We’ve been talking about why we wanted another framework than Waterfall and ended up with Scrum, and we’ve giving some insights on how we’ve tweaked Scrum for physical inventing and applied it to our everyday […]

After months of preparation the day finally arrived: It was time to push the button and set our Kickstarter-campaign into motion. Prepared with high spirits and chilled beer we gathered at the office, launched the campaign, pushed the message to our network. And then nothing. A big anti climax where we just starred at the

Scrum was originally made for software developers, but with a little tweaking it can be very useful for product development as well. In this post we will share some practical insights on how we’ve tweaked and implemented Scrum to our hardware processes Before we get started with the post, you should know, that this is

After two years of development Upclimber is almost ready for launch – and we’re proud to announce our commercial partner for the Danish market: Danilift. Working with Danilift is a first, but with almost 20 years of experience in sale, distribution and service of liftproducts, Danilift is the perfect match for Upclimber. Danilift is known

By building a solid community before launching your campaign, you massively increase your chance of success. We didn’t do a very good job at systematizing our own network and create a community – so this is a post about what we would do differently, if we could do it over Two month before our OPLØFT-campaign

Scrum is mostly associated with software development, but in the search of a more agile methodology we stole the design process from software developers, and tweaked it for physical inventing. Here is why we wanted a new method and why we went with Scrum. When we founded Lolle & Nielsen Inventions back in 2010, we

As of 30th November we are officially a Gazelle-company – a nomination the newspaper Børsen annually gives companies that have had continuous growth during a four year period and doubled turnover in that timeframe. With a growth of 243,2% we’re among the best third of this year Gazelles – which we’re obviously very proud of!

After deciding that Kickstarter was the right path for OPLØFT, we had two months to prepare the content of the campaign. It may sound like a lot, but knowing that you pretty much have one shot to do it right, it isn’t. Our main focus was the campaign video, and in this post you’ll get

Smash hit inventions that solve a simple problem for millions of people might supply the inventor with sufficient royalty-funds for a lifetime. But those smashhits are rare. Jackpot-rare. Instead of hoping for a smashhit we’ve made inventing physical products a growth business by tuning our business model for systematical inventing. We all know the stereotypical,

The office was tense with excitement, when our campaign went online on the 20. April 2016. Huge effort was put into preparing the campaign in the hope of improving the odds for succeeding, but it still felt like a leap of faith: In one months enough people had to find and like OPLØFT so much,