**Helping Inventors Build Businesses** Innovative Manufacturing Consultants (IMC) offers in depth consulting and coaching services to inventors, startups, researchers, and established businesses. Highly-qualified IMC professionals will work with you to develop your manufactured product and mitigate the risks that regularly cause early stage failures. If you have an idea you want to turn into a business, working with IMC is the best decision you will make. There are two ways we typically engage with our clients. **Consulting** Our unique approach improves your product and your business through every stage of its development. IMC’s proven process includes: 1. Verifying your customer’s commercial and technical needs 2. Engineering a design to meet those needs 3. Building a production-ready prototype, not just a proof of concept As a result, IMC will deliver a production design ready for manufacturing and revenue generation. **Coaching** - together with The Manufacturer Incubator at the Tech Valley Center of Gravity http://www.tvcog.net/manufacturing-incubator/ Propelled by IMC, The Manufacturing Incubator provides coaching and risk mitigation for startups seeking industry expertise to bring your physical product to market and create a revenue generating business. Our two-phase incubator program provides guidance to help you prioritize your actions and move forward. Phase 1 – Design It & Prototype It Right Phase 2 – Scale Up Manufacturing & Grow Offering this program at the Tech Valley Center of Gravity provides the startups with access to the makerspace, The Prototyping Center, coworking, a highly creative community, and an innovative home from which to launch your business. IMC coaching will help you avoid early stage failures and allow you to focus on growing your business. For inquiries, message us via LinkedIn.