What PlanetAikon does to help early stage entrepreneurs to navigate the Idea-to-Prototype (Valley of Death) Stage

1. What We Do Realizing Your Ideas by Leveraging Community Powered Innovation © Aikon Labs LLC : 2008 - 09

4. © Aikon Labs LLC : 2008 - 09 PlanetAikon™ Ecosystem Divergence of Aspirations, Convergence of Purpose Lead Users Domain & Tech Contributors Legal Experts Ideators Sponsors Mentors Academic/R&D Angel Investors / Venture Capitalists Industry Associations Aikon Leads

5. The Power Law of Co-creation* © Aikon Labs LLC : 2008 - 09 CONNECT Build Relationships COLLABORATE Share & Team CO-CREATE Execute & Realize Build Profile Add Contacts & Network Subscribe & Favorites Comment Write Identify Team Form Team & Share Discuss & Moderate Define Roles Build Roadmap Business Case Teaming Agreement Refine Team & Contract Plan & Manage Build & Test Early Beta & Feedback Commercialize Contribute * Adapted from Ross Mayfield’s Power Law of Participation - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

6. Community Incubation Projects Realizing Ideas with Community Participation © Aikon Labs LLC : 2008 - 09 PlanetAikon Platform Idea to Product L/C Commercialize/Contribute Request Closed Request Team space Creation for Idea Incubation Request for Idea Incubation Ideators Form Core Team & Teaming Contract Post & Share Idea In Team space Develop Product Specs Design Product Develop Product Plan Implement Design &/or Integrate Launch Review & Refine (Quality Gates) ‏ Aikon Leads & Facilitators Domain Communities Designer/ Architect Communities Lead Users Developer Communities Mentors Legal Experts

7. © Aikon Labs LLC : 2008 - 09 Sponsored Innovation Projects Crowdsourcing Innovation Customer/ Sponsor PLANETAIKON PLATFORM Project Completion and Payouts Sponsored Innovation L/C Sponsored Challenge/ Project Request Sign-Off Team Space Creation for Sponsored Innovation Identify & Assemble Team Post Requirements in Team space Develop Solution Roadmap Design Solution Teaming Contract Develop & Integrate Deploy & Approve Test & Refine Requirement Specs by Sponsor Team Aikon Leads & Facilitators Domain Communities Designer/ Architect Communities Lead Users Developer Communities

8. Your Cause - Our Mission © Aikon Labs LLC : 2008 - 09 Enable a Community-Powered Global Innovation Ecosystem through a Collaboration and Execution Platform to incubate Next Generation IP Process Frameworks Communities Scope Value Time Economies of Innovation Platform &Tools