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1. HARDWARE 101

2. I’m @katherinehague

3. Co-Founder & CEO
ShopLocket

4. The Blueprint & Global
Hardware Hackathons for
PCH International

5. Incubation
Distribution
Manufacturing
Supply Chain Management

6. We’re on the search for the
next Steve Jobs.

9. Julie Uhrman
Founder and CEO of OUYA
Limor Fried
Founder at Adafruit
Marc Barros
Co-Founder at Moment
Dale Dougherty
Founder and CEO
of Maker Media
Ben Larralde
Founder at HACKSTER.IO
Eric Ries
Pioneer of The Lean Startup
Movement
Robert Platek
Founder and CEO of IoT
Toronto Meetup
Kate Drane
Design, Tech & Hardware
Lead at Indiegogo
Tom Emrich
Founder of We Are Wearables
Eric Boyd
Founder at Sensebridge
Nick Pinkston
Founder at Plethora
Chris Anderson
Co-Founder and CEO at
3D Robotics
Renee DiResta
Principal at OATV
Tom Igoe
Co-Founder of Arduino
Ben Kaufman
CEO of Quirky
Karl Bass
CEO,Autodesk

11. HARDWARE IS
EXPLODING.

12. THE HARDWARE + WEARABLE TECH BUZZ
INVESTMENTS
HARDWARE AND WEARABLES GROWTH
Beats by Dre
acquired by Apple
for $3 billion
Facebook acquires
Oculus VR for $2 billion
Google acquires Nest
Labs for $3.2 billion
Nest Labs buys
Dropcam for $555American venture capitalists
invested a record $848 million in
hardware startups in 2014,
according to the Wall Street Journal.
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14. How is hardware
different to software?

15. Very clear value exchange.

16. Many existing
distribution channels.

17. Ripe for disruption.

18. Ship once. Hardware can’t
be updated over the cloud.

19. You still have all of the
problems of software.

20. Tips for success.

21. Do customer
development.

22. Know your costs & don’t
under price.

23. Pre-orders rarely fund
your operations.

24. Be a company,
not a project.

25. Where to start.

26. Events

27. Prototyping
Tools

28. Prototyping
Partners

29. Online
Sourcing

30. Accelerators

31. Manufacturing

32. Sales

33. Some final thoughts.

34. Read
!
Makers: The New
Industrial Revolution
!
By Chris Anderson

35. M U S T W A T C H :
!
S I L I C O N V A L L E Y
P B S

36. M U S T D O :
!
G E T O N A P L A N E .
G O T O T H E
V A L L E Y . G O T O
S H E N Z H E N .

37. TO RO N TO
HARDWARE
HACKATHON
MARCH 6, 7, 8, 2015
Meet awesome peopleMeet awesome people Make cool stuffMake cool stuff $8000 in prizes$8000 in prizes Think creativelyThink creatively Have fun!!Have fun!!
hardwarehackathon.org
TO@hardwarehackathon.org

38. katherine@theblueprint.com
@katherinehague