Learning the Hardware Way - Emile Petrone
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Emile Petrone, CEO and founder, Tindie, presentation from MakerCon Bay Area 2014
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Learning the Hardware Way - Emile Petrone
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Editor's Notes
- Who here knows about Tindie? Marketplace for helping indie hardware startups
- Qr code clock - feb 2013 most successful project up to that point and it almost killed the seller However it basically brought the seller to their knees.
- We’ve gotten into a path where people see this and forget
- This was the first GoPro went on sale in 2004. So you say well that was a different time, how would it have launched today?
- Today we forget this key fact. People expect polish and it ship now. Both of which are unrealistic
- so to help those bootstrapping projects, companies we launched Tindie we’re a marketplace for indie hardware things from raspberry pi to go pro to robots
- If you havent manufactured anything before, it seems crazy ot jump in at 100mph. I wonder what the success rates between crowd funding and american idol..probably similar success rates for home runs
- Example then of a bootstrapped project temperature, humidity, air pressure, light levels, UV levels, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and smoke level
- Crowding around table assembling parts
- the result, mounds of product
- so how can we help more people go from idea to finished product and ship? we know makers are good at making ,but not manufacturing
- Annoucning Tindie U… content, and videos for people to learn how to commercialize their product. Starting next week in
- Also launching with Arduboy On display at our table at MakerFaire
- But we are doing it together. “We are what we celebrate.” We are building a community to support innovation. We must support people on the edge. Join us. We can’t wait to help you.