Much like how the disposable shoe cover machine gave you instant covers on the bottom of your shoes for walking around indoors while keeping the floors clean, these step-in shoe covers give you instant shoe covers just by stepping on them. But what makes these different are that they’re fully reusable, and you don’t need a giant heavy machine!
Once you place your foot on the top of the Step In Sock, the device will immediately wrap itself around the bottom of your shoes. This way you can instantly cover your shoes, and prevent them from dirtying a nice clean house you’re about to enter.
Perfect for home workers that are constantly needing to enter homes to fix appliances, do quotes, or for realtors demoing a lot of homes, these step-in shoe covers allow you to use them over and over again without having to throw away some plastic after every use.
Called the Step In Sock, the instant shoe cover is used by placing the device on a clean flat surface, then just step your foot on the middle of the device and it will instantly wrap around your shoe, covering the entire bottom area, as well as keeping in any dirt that might fall off your shoe.
To remove the Step In Sock, just peel it off your shoe, and take it with you. The best part about these step-in shoe covers is that you can use them over and over again without having to create extra waste and plastic use.
As of this writing, the Step In Sock shoe covers are available for pre-order on Kickstarter.
Startup
A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. While entrepreneurship refers to all new businesses, including self-employment and businesses that never intend to become registered, startups refer to new businesses that intend to grow large beyond the solo founder. At the beginning, startups face high uncertainty and have high rates of failure, but a minority of them do go on to be successful and influential. Some startups become unicorns; that is privately held startup companies valued at over US$1 billion.
Actions
Startups typically begin by a founder (solo-founder) or co-founders who have a way to solve a problem. The founder of a startup will begin market validation by problem interview, solution interview, and building a minimum viable product (MVP), i.e. a prototype, to develop and validate their business models. The startup process can take a long period of time (by some estimates, three years or longer), and hence sustaining effort is required. Over the long term, sustaining effort is especially challenging because of the high failure rates and uncertain outcomes. Having a business plan in place outlines what to do and how to plan and achieve an idea in the future. Typically, these plans outline the first 3 to 5 years of your business strategy.
Design principles
Models behind startups presenting as ventures are usually associated with design science. Design science uses design principles considered to be a coherent set of normative ideas and propositions to design and construct the company's backbone. For example, one of the initial design principles is "affordable loss".
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