Paying for Smartphone Development: Direct Payment vs. Accountant Handling Manufacturer

Hi, Im a tech entrepreneur looking to design consumer electronics. I have a question: When I outsource to a manufacturer to develop around my vision do I pay out of pocket for the development or do I hire an accountant who pays for the development of the product(s)? Im a tech entrepreneur. This is a general business question.

There are multiple steps in the design process.
   Concept - you have an idea with a description and rough drawings
   Prototype design - you build something to prove the concept   Prototype testing - you test to make sure it meets requirements   Final design - build something that can be manufactured
You can outsource any or all of these after the concept. Often the prototype phase has multiple iterations.
The final design is where you need to get the manufacturer involved. By this time you should have formed a company. Your company will contract with the designer/manufacturer you chose on either an hourly or fixed rate. Before you can have a product, you will need to come up with the money to pay for the design and initial manufacturing run. The initial money comes out of your pocket.
Where an accountant comes in is to keep track of money going in or out of the company. Also making sure that the tax forms are filled out. This becomes much more important when you have a product that you are selling. You don't really need an accountant at the beginning if you are willing to learn a few accounting basics.

Further to Elizabeth's excellent comments,  IP protection is important, it takes time, and it costs. If you  have an idea, someone else can equally have the same idea, and chances are they already have. Patent searching is advisable. Technology moves rapidly, smart phone technology is a case in point, you are up against some of the biggest technolgy companies in the world. They invest many percent of there turn over in R&D. If  your product is something that you think the public genuinely wants, then you  could possibly test the waters with crowd funding. Additionally, there are banks  and government agencies  that specialize in providing seed funding or venture capital, but there are a lot of hoops to run through.Not to sound too discouraging, your idea might be great, but most  businesses fail, not because  the idea is bad, but because the accounting side of things fails, you are first and foremost a technolgist, the pressure to see your technolgy out in the world leads to neglecting the money side. You need capital (many businesses are under capatilized) good accountancy practices and accountancy advice from an accountant that has been through this before. There is plenty of self help advice available on the web, be wary of a lot of it, many authors are making money out of selling their advice,  not technology. Look out for the ones that have actually started up technology companies,  and have perhaps failed and succedded on a number of occasions, and  were able to  lucidly say why. Cheers,Richard

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Where can I hire a person who could help me with the smartphone design program?

I'm taking up a course in Consumer Electonics online and my instructor has just sent me an assignment. I need to create a custom design for Nuvation Engineering. And then my second task is to set up custom chart views in MS-Project. Where can I find a tutorial how to do this?

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