A conversation with Tim Keller of Inventopia in Davis, CA Podcast Video Transcript You can imagine how it is at the North Pole this time of year. The elves are overworked and they’re running behind. Getting all the required materials to the North Pole is really hard with the supply chain problems. And then Santa […]
Victor Hwang is the Founder and CEO of Right to Start, which is organizing a movement that seeks to open doors for more people to become entrepreneurs and create an ecosystem in America that supports entrepreneurial activity. After many years leading entrepreneurship efforts at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Victor started his own organization […]
Makeblock founder, Jasen Wang, talks about the growing role of the Maker Movement in China.
When Avidan Ross was planning his wedding, he bought a Jinan G. Weike LG500 laser cutter to make his own escort cards and table numbers. “She got a diamond, I got a 90W laser,” he said. It was that mentality that led Ross to launch a $30 million fund — or, more precisely, a pi-inspired $31,415,927 — […]
Every week, we come across a wealth of advice and resources for hardware entrepreneurs. Here’s what we’ve been reading this week: Want to get on a bus with a bunch of strangers with whom you’ll conceive, build, and launch a startup in just 72 hours? That’s the premise of StartupBus, a peculiar project that’s currently […]
This week’s clever maker-entrepreneur award goes to Etsy seller Cleaner Science, who makes and sells these awesome soaps that look like petri dishes full of growing germs. They’re easy to make (I presume), inexpensive to buy, light enough to ship cheaply, and totally original. Home run! Bonus: some include glow-in-the-dark spots! [via Geekologie]
Todd Greene is the Los-Angeles-based inventor of the HeadBlade, shown above, which is an ergonomic razor intended specifically for close-shaving of the head, rather than the face. It was chosen as one of Time’s Ten Best Designs of 2000. Greene, who claims to have made millions selling HeadBlades, is one of several inventors and inventing “gurus” featured in this interesting article on CNN.com about the groundswell of ambitious inventing in the United States triggered by the recession.
