This website is overdue for a one year anniversary post. For our community, I want midVentures to become a Chicago Tech Startup Incubator. But on a more tangible level, midVentures helps you Rapid Prototype new web application ideas for your business.

I’m not personally a ninja programmer, though I know my way around C++, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, CSS, HTML, and Visual Basic. In fact, what midVentures does best is not necessarily the programming. We turn ideas into interactive online prototypes. I have been working with some product management consultants to hone our midVentures process of turning ideas into visual mockups and interactive online prototypes in under 30 days. And from the feedback of the market: that’s a lot faster than companies can attempt internally.

I declare our Rapid App Prototyping Service to be fully operational Monday September 6th.

1. We start with the Idea Workshop with you and your team, flushing out new ideas ranging from social networks, mobile apps, front-end or back-end software, marketplaces, mashups, online tools, news and media sites, games, promotions, etc.
2. Once we flush the ideas out, we write up a market analysis and Feasibility Summary of each idea’s impact on your company and your customers; as well as the goals for each prototype once it is interactive.
3. We Rapidly Design and Develop the online interactive prototypes of your site, app, or software. This takes about 2 weeks, and our goal is to give you and your customers something to ‘play with’ early. This is not your production app and you won’t make money off of it, but you will get critical feedback.
4. We Measure the Outcomes of each prototype app. What did your team think? What did your customers think? What is the feasibility for budget, timeline, market reaction, and technology for developing the prototype into a production app?

Cynical midVentures fans will be correct in assuming that Rapid Prototyping your venture is something that midVentures has been doing for the past year. But of all the many things we have attempted, Prototyping is a stage of development where we blow clients out of the water.