Konstantin Dolgan of LA NPDT One of the 100 Most Influential

January 23, 2020: The LA New Product Development Team has proudly announced that its co-founder, Dr. Konstantin Dolgan was selected as one of the most influential entrepreneurs in the State of Louisiana for the third time in a row.

Konstantin was nominated and selected for the 2019 Silicon Bayou 100, a list of the 100 most influential and active people in tech and entrepreneurship throughout Louisiana over the past year.

Headquartered in Shreveport, Louisiana, the company is basically a cross-functional organization of talented engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs.

“We are very pleased to announce that our very own, Konstantin Dolgan has been recently selected as one of the most influential entrepreneurs in Louisiana,” said Onega Ulanova of the LA NPDT, while talking about the achievement. “What makes us truly unique is that here at LA NPDT, we combine and blend both software and hardware worlds to meet the contemporary needs of the market,” she added.

About LA NPDT:

LA NPDT is a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and marketing specialists brings technical expertise to the table. In particular, they provide product design, prototyping, and marketing services.

In other words, they are experts at turning ideas into market-ready products. This includes developing CAD models and PCB circuits, building prototypes, optimizing product designs for manufacturing, creating marketing materials (packaging, websites, animations, renderings), and more.

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Konstantin Dolgan is a co-founder of LA NPDT. He was named one of the 100 most influential entrepreneurs in Louisiana by Silicon Bayou 100 for the third time in a row. He was selected for the 2019 list. He is recognized for his influence in tech and entrepreneurship throughout Louisiana.

LA NPDT provides product design, prototyping, and marketing services. They develop CAD models and PCB circuits. The team also builds prototypes and optimizes product designs for manufacturing. Additionally, they create marketing materials such as packaging, websites, animations, and renderings. They aim to turn ideas into market-ready products.

LA NPDT specializes in blending innovation with technology and creativity to produce results. They combine both software and hardware worlds to meet market needs. Their team includes engineers, designers, and marketing specialists. They focus on turning ideas into market-ready products. The company is headquartered in Shreveport, Louisiana.

To start a Prior Art Search, fill out the form to submit your order. After successful payment, you will receive an email with a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) and a questionnaire. Completing these documents promptly allows the search to begin without delay. Contact LA NPDT at 318-200-0526 or hello@lanpdt.com for assistance.

Awards are a proxy, not a deliverable. The reason recognition like the Silicon Bayou 100 matters to a manufacturer is that it points at a track record: hundreds of programs taken from sketch to tooling, and the scar tissue that comes with them. When a manufacturer brings in an outside product development consultant, they are not buying enthusiasm — they are buying decisions that have already been made wrong somewhere else, at someone else's expense.

Most manufacturers can build. What they usually lack is the front half of the program: discovery, requirements, industrial design, electronics, firmware, regulatory strategy and design for manufacturing, all sequenced so nothing gets re-done. Staffing those disciplines permanently only pays off if the company launches several products a year. Below that rate, an outside team on a product development consulting engagement is cheaper and faster than payroll, because the cost tracks the program rather than the calendar.

The second reason is objectivity. Internal teams inherit the assumptions of the last product. An outside consultant re-tests the requirement set against real users and real cost targets before anything is tooled, which is the whole point of running a structured product development process instead of jumping straight to CAD. On roughly a third of the programs we take on, the biggest saving comes from removing a feature nobody was willing to question.

Third: continuity of accountability. A single team that owns concept, prototype design, DFM and pilot build cannot hand a problem across a boundary and call it solved. When electronics, enclosure and assembly are argued out in the same room, the tolerance stack and the BOM stay honest. You can see how that plays out across programs in our portfolio.

The table is the argument in one glance: four to five permanent hires, most of them idle between programs, versus a scoped team that appears for the phase you are in. That arithmetic is why the majority of new hardware in the US ships through some form of external development partner.

Because the front half of a program — discovery, requirements, industrial design, electronics and design for manufacturing — requires four to six specialists who are only busy while a new product is in flight. Hiring them permanently costs several hundred thousand dollars a year and leaves them idle between launches. A consultant supplies the same disciplines for the duration of the program, and brings pattern recognition from other launches that an internal team cannot accumulate quickly.

Silicon Bayou 100 is an annual list recognizing the 100 most influential people in technology and entrepreneurship in Louisiana. Konstantin Dolgan, co-founder of LA NPDT, has appeared on the list multiple years for work in product development, prototyping and support of the state's inventor and startup community.

No — the usual arrangement is augmentation. Internal engineers keep ownership of the platform, sustaining work and supplier relationships, while the consulting team carries the new program through discovery, design and manufacturing transfer, then hands over a complete data package so the internal team can maintain it.

Before requirements are frozen. The cheapest change is a change to a requirement; the most expensive is a change to a tool. Bringing a consultant in after CAD is complete typically means paying twice for the same geometry.