The document discusses the evolution and significance of the maker movement, highlighting its role as a catalyst for innovation by combining physical and digital realms. It outlines the stages of the entrepreneurial process, the emergence of maker communities, and several success stories that exemplify the potential of this movement. Additionally, it emphasizes the benefits of collaborative spaces and the need for access to resources to foster creative solutions and entrepreneurship.

2. BY DANIEL LIN

3. Necessity is the mother of invention

4. · FutureWard, Founder
· Arkeaology, CEO
· Panel Group, Business Development
Officer
· TVBS, ABC Bakery
· Cave Books, Kaiser Kastle
· JHMI, Epidemiology
· Johns Hopkins University, Biophysics
· Sophia University, Finance

5. · Mixed Pears, Co-founder Tern, Director
of Sales & Marketing
· Dahon, Director of Global Sales &
Marketing
· DDG, Brand Strategy Consultant
· L’Oreal
· Thunderbird School of Global
Management

6. Stages of Entrepreneurial Process
• Opportunity Analysis
• Business Plan
• Funding
• Resources required
• Scaling & harvesting

7. What is a Maker?
People who want to create,
build, and fix things.
“Doers” not just Thinkers,
they want tangible proof
that their idea works.
Creative Remix Culture /
Demo Culture

8. Who is making?
• >500 makerspaces in the US
• >135 million makers
• >150,000 attendees of Bay
Area Maker Faire
• >300,000 readers of Make
Magazine
• >1.7 million active Etsy sellers
• >3 million GitHub users

9. People have been making things for a long time.
Inventing. Tinkering. Making. It’s not new.

10. https://www.deskwanted.com/about/how-many-coworking-spaces-are-there.html
Today, the internet has added new potential for collaboration between people.
However, the physical space is still very important.

11. First Industrial Revolution:
Mechanical
Second Industrial
Revolution:
Computing
Third Industrial Revolution:
Mechanical + Computing
“The Maker movement
is what happens
when the Web meets
the real world.
[It’s] the third industrial
revolution.”
Chris Anderson
Former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED magazine
Author of “The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of
More”
Author of “Makers: The New Industrial Revolution”
Founder of GeekDad

12. Early Example: The Homebrew Computer Club
Apple found its first customers and
received development feedback via
The Homebrew Computer Club (an
early maker community)

13. Maker Culture: Three Embodiments
MAKE Magazine (2005) Maker Faire (2006) Makerspaces

14. Maker Culture: Modern Drivers
The new potential comes from of the
combination of the physical and
computer power.
Other important drivers:
Economic uncertainty = desire for
self-reliance, hands on
understanding and control
Distributed Manufacturing = costs
of digital fabrication rapidly
shrinking
Sharing/Open Culture =
collaboration, online and
worldwide, reference platforms

15. Why Now?
Internet
Collaboration
Knowledge sharing Platforms: GitHub, Instructables,
Thingiverse.com
MOOCs
Crowdsourcing
Crowdfunding: Kickstarter, Indiegogo, FlyingV
Rise of the Sharing Economy: Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit
Access to new technologies
Digital Fabrication: additive manufacturing, CNC milling, laser
cutting

16. Why Now?
Cost of Tools and other Equipment
New Material Availability
Open Source Platforms
Hardware: Arduino, Raspberry Pi
Design: OpenDesk
Local Manufacturing
Distributed Manufacturing

17. Current buzz-worthy examples
3D Printing - MakerBot, RepRap, Form Labs, Shapeways
UAV/ROV Drones - 3D Robotics, DJI, OpenROV
Personal Payments - Square
DIY Marketplaces - Etsy.com and Pinkoi.com
Green Tech - Upcycling movement, fixing existing tech and reuse
Each is an entire industry created in the past 5 years with the Maker Culture playing a large
role.

18. Company Success Stories: Square
Summary: Square is a small credit card reader that plugs into the headphone jack on a smart
phone and facilitates person-to-person credit card transactions of any amount. It was
developed, prototyped, and the first production batches made at Techshop. The company’s
valuation in January 2014 was $5 billion. [http://www.squareup.com]
Also see Square Helper, an accessory product for Square from another individual working
with a 3D printer : http://www.squarehelper.com

19. Company Success Stories: MakerBot
Summary: MakerBot is a consumer-focused 3D printing company that got it’s start out of
NYC Resistor, an early Hackerspace in New York (building on the open source RepRap
project). In June of 2013 MakerBot was sold to industrial 3D printing company Stratasys for
$403 million in stock. With their recent success they have become a poster child for media
looking to cover aspects of 3D printing and the industry.
Link: http://www.makerbot.com/

20. Company Success Story: DJI Innovations
Summary: Founder Frank Wang was a student at HKUST when he started the company
out of his interest in UAV/drone technology. Now has 900 employees and generated
US$130m in 2013.
http://m.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1370451/apple-pearl-river-delta-dji-
innovations-taking-flight/

21. Company Success Story: 3D Robotics
Summary: Born out of Chris Anderson’s involvement in the Maker Movement, he left
WIRED magazine to start a company out of his interest in 3D printing and UAV/drone
technology. Raised $5 Million in funding in 2012. Now three offices and 70 employees.
http://venturebeat.com/2012/11/02/wired-editor-chris-anderson-leaves-magazine-
world-to-run-robotics-company/

22. Traditional model
Maker model

23. What are the benefits of a Maker
Community?
Increased pace of innovation
Pooling and Sharing Resources provides more people with access to
emerging tech
Reducing cost of entry to starting up
Forming foundation for “Start-Up” Capital Environment

24. What are the benefits of a community to
a Maker?
Cross-disciplinary experience fosters creative solutions
Interaction speeds iteration
Feedback maintains perspective
Shared experience creates knowledge faster

25. How to foster such a community?
Build an Integrated Startup Space
Coworking Space + Makerspace
= Ultimate Space for Innovators

26. What is a
Coworking Space + Makerspace?
A Collaborative Learning Environment
Shared spaces, tools, and knowledge
More than just space and tools
Community
Culture
Content

27. Challenges to “Makers”
1. Access to Space
2. Access to Equipment
3. Access to Capital
Bring #1 & #2 together and you get physical, proven examples for #3 to invest in.

29. Bigger Model: Urban Revitalization
NewLab
Located at the Naval Ship Yards in Brooklyn, NY
Highlighted by Obama in a recent speech as an example for building a core to new
development.
Why we like it:
It is big and ambitious, but that means it will have broader reach
Size, scope, and government ties help them get corporate sponsorship in the form
of advanced equipment.
Massive repurposing of building in need of renewal, but maintaing historic
relevance.

30. Space Revilatization

34. Seek partners with shared vision & goals

45. Event Space

46. Prototyping

47. Woodworking

48. Coworking Space

60. Corporate Projects
• Autodesk’s first mobile makerspace
• Ogilvy & Mather X Ikea viral marketing campaign
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qw7Gigsctk
• Design Thinking workshops for Taisun, NTU Biodesign
• Team building workshops with Yahoo, Transcend

61. FutureWard 2.0
• Makerspace Consulting
• Hardware + Software
• Membership management
• Space management
• Content: classes & events
• Innovation strategy & workshops
• Hardware Startup Network
• Hardware Massive
• International Partners: US, Australia,
Israel, HK
• Coworking Space
• Soft-landing for international
startups
• Travel & business services
• Access to resources

62. Clustering resources
• English speaking lawyers & accountants
• Visas
• Company registrations
• Government programs
• Grants & loans
• Human Resource
• Mentors & VCs
• System Integrators
• Manufacturers

63. Location
• Address:
• No. 343 Changchun Road, B1, Songshan District, Taipei City
台北市松山區長春路 343 號, B1 (Google Map Location)
• 5 min walk from Nanjing-Fuxing station
• Plenty of parking options
• Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am - 9pm
• Private offices will have 24/7 access

65. Reception

66. Social Areas

67. Event Space

68. Events

69. Start you future!