John Teel from Predictable Designs (a great resource for hardware startups, with a focus on electronic design & engineering) just launched his podcast, and I thought the third episode was quite interesting. The interviewee was Dave … [Read more...]
7 Typical Pitfalls for Hardware Startups Producing in China
A few years ago, I remember reading about the Coolest Cooler, a nice product that raised an amazing amount of money on Kickstarter: over 6,000 people bought it for a total of 13 million USD!! Yet, they went bust leaving a lot of frustrated … [Read more...]
Design for Distribution: What Hardware Startups Need To Know
I had an interesting conversation about Design for Distribution with Kevin Howard, a packaging engineer and owner of Packnomics. (Kevin wrote before about packaging optimization on this blog.) … [Read more...]
Conference for Hardware Startups in October, in Hong Kong
Global Sources has totally revamped the free conferences they run besides their trade shows in Hong Kong. They seem to primarily target hardware startups, but days 3 and 4 can be interesting to any company. Here is the new … [Read more...]
8 Must-Follow Tips for Software Companies Developing a New Hardware Product
Software companies are often used to using an agile design approach (often SCRUM) to design and develop software products, and they wonder if they can carry over the approach to when they need to develop a new hardware product to support … [Read more...]
Patents For Hardware Products: When Do You Need Them?
Inventors, hardware startups, and other businesses with a new hardware product concept that they are aiming to bring to market are usually worried about protecting their product IP. One common question is about the need for patents for … [Read more...]
A Logical Development Roadmap for New Hardware Products
I enjoyed reading the book Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making and I started suggesting it to some of our clients. The most interesting takeaway is the development roadmap that the author suggests is typical for … [Read more...]
The Blind Spot That Turns Investors Off Your New Hardware Product Idea
Founders with a new hardware product idea often keep it under wraps as much as possible, pushing to get to market as early as possible driven by the fear of being copied. That's a valid concern, but it can lead to a serious blind spot that … [Read more...]
Final Prototype of your New Hardware Product: When Will You Get There?
In nearly all cases, people who are developing a new hardware product tend to overestimate the progress they have already accomplished, relative to the "finish line" (bringing a batch of finished products to market). They often think the … [Read more...]
Misguided Legal Advice Given to Startups in China: 8 Examples
We talk to hardware startup founders (on the way to bringing a new product into production) every week, and many of them have talked to a lawyer -- which is a good thing. Unfortunately, the legal advice given to startups is not always … [Read more...]
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