Lviv IT Arena is a conference specially designed for programmers, designers, developers, top managers, inverstors, entrepreneur and startuppers. Annually it takes place on 2-4 of October in Lviv at the Arena Lviv stadium. In 2015 conference gathered more than 1400 participants and over 100 speakers from companies like Facebook. FitBit, Mail.ru, HP, Epson and IBM. More details about conference at itarene.lviv.ua.

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5. 31 people San-Francisco, US Shenzhen, CNKyiv, UA8 people

6. T I M E L I N E
2013 2014 2015 2016
DevelopmentKickstarter
ShippingManufacturing
DistributionPreorders
Haxlr8r

7. Distribution
petcube.com
Currently available in the US
$199

9. Mobile app

10. Lean
Hardware
Startup*
T H E
* Cyril Ebersweiler
Haxlr8r

11. I D E A P R O D U C T
Idea Mass productionPrototype Engineering
Sample
Small batch
Open hardware
toolkits
Crowd Funding Agile
Manufacturing
Quick prototyping
services

12. How HARD
can it be?
It’s called Hardware
because it’s Hard.

13. Manufacturing in China
is a challenge for your
body and for your mind

18. (mèng), the Chinese character
for “dream,” is made up of four
parts and is ideographic. The two
upper parts, ( ) and ( ),
together resemble the shape of an
eyebrow above the eye of a
person. The middle part ( ) is
interpreted as either a bed or the
roof of a house; and the lower part
is the character xī, which means
evening.

19. Hardware is less hard
with accelerator

20. 111 days program in Shenzhen
2 weeks demo is San Francisco
$50K for 5-10% of your company

21. 1
Intro to China,
factories, mentors,
other teams
2
Focus on the
prototype
3
Negotiating with
factories about mass
production
4
Product demo,
media coverage.
Maybe Kickstarter.

23. Concept (ID)
P L A N F O R H A R D W A R E S T A R T U P
Design-For-Manufacture (DFM)
Minimal Viable Product (MVP)
Complete Functional Product (CFP)
Mass production (MP)
Shipment
Retail

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