Polin
Helping Product Leaders Build High-Confidence Pipelines | Identify the Problem. Solve the Problem, Build the Solution! | Founder of Balance Innovation
- Role
- President and Founder at Balance Innovation
- Location
- Cleveland, OH, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Polin
Identify the Problem. Solve the Problem, Build the Solution! As a serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple businesses, René understands business risk on a visceral level. He\'s not a consultant who theorizes from a place of safety, he\'s someone who has personally bet everything on product success multiple times. He\'s developed and licensed product lines, raised capital, managed P & Ls, and experienced both spectacular successes and instructive failures.This entrepreneurial perspective means René thinks like an owner, not a vendor. He considers market dynamics, manufacturing economics, IP strategy, channel conflicts, competitive responses, and all the real-world factors that determine whether innovation actually creates business value. You\'re not hiring someone to make pretty things; you\'re partnering with someone who understands how to make money from innovation.
Experience
President and Founder
Feb 2004 — Present · Cleveland/Akron, OH, US
My company designs high margin products people cannot live without because they solve real problems. No Nonsense. No Junk. No Fluff. We never fail. Period.
Education
John Carroll University
English Language and Literature/Letters
1987 — 1988
Cleveland Institute of Art
BFA, Industrial Design
1989 — 1994
Ohio University
Fine/Studio Arts, General
1988 — 1989
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Certificate, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
2016
Skills
- Solidworks
- Design Management
- Experience Design
- Product Development
- Indesign
- Sketching
- Rapid Prototyping
- Industrial Design
- Illustrator
- Interaction Design
- Product Design
- Graphic Design
- Design Strategy
- Brand Development
- Photoshop
- Concept Design
- Strategic Planning
- Leadership
- Creative Problem Solving
- Illustration
- Packaging
- User Experience
- User-Centered Design
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Model Making
- Concept Generation
- Problem Solving
- Consulting
- Design Thinking
- Rendering
- Concept Development
- Product Innovation
- Creative Direction
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