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Maker Pro News: How Startups Can Thrive Locally

Maker Pro News: How Startups Can Thrive Locally

By Jon Christian

Jon Christian

Jon Christian is the co-editor of the Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection between makers and business. He's also written for the Boston Globe, WIRED and The Atlantic.

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By DC Denison

DC Denison

DC Denison is the co-editor of The Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection of makers and business. That means hardware startups, new products, and market trends.

DC manages customer stories at Acquia, the digital experience company.

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Also inside: tips from a hardware founder who failed on an epic scale.

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Maker Pro News: How Jawbone Clawed Its Way Back From Bankruptcy

Maker Pro News: How Jawbone Clawed Its Way Back From Bankruptcy

By Jon Christian

Jon Christian

Jon Christian is the co-editor of the Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection between makers and business. He's also written for the Boston Globe, WIRED and The Atlantic.

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By DC Denison

DC Denison

DC Denison is the co-editor of The Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection of makers and business. That means hardware startups, new products, and market trends.

DC manages customer stories at Acquia, the digital experience company.

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Also inside: catching up with New York maker pros.

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Maker Pro News: Pitch Your Project, a Palm-Sized Drone, and More

Maker Pro News: Pitch Your Project, a Palm-Sized Drone, and More

By DC Denison

DC Denison

DC Denison is the co-editor of The Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection of makers and business. That means hardware startups, new products, and market trends.

DC manages customer stories at Acquia, the digital experience company.

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By Jon Christian

Jon Christian

Jon Christian is the co-editor of the Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection between makers and business. He's also written for the Boston Globe, WIRED and The Atlantic.

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Plus, read about product pitch tips from IoT platform Brinc, Google’s maker survey, and unique laser-cut business cards.

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ProtoPalette EdTech CEO Will Pemble

Maker Entrepreneurs Shine at MakerCon Launch Pad

By Donald Bell

Donald Bell

I make stuff, play music, and sometimes make stuff that plays music. Fan of donuts, Arduino, BEAM robotics, skateboarding, Buckminster Fuller, and blinking lights.

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The premise of MakerCon’s Launch Pad competition is fairly simple. 10 Maker-based startups give a  five-minute pitch of their product or idea to a panel of five judges. The judges deliberate and award a grand prize ($5,000 and free booth space at Maker Faire) to the most promising company. But from what I saw today, […]

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Software Incubator Y Combinator To Begin Funding Hardware Startups

Software Incubator Y Combinator To Begin Funding Hardware Startups

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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Y Combinator, one of the most famous incubator programs in the industry, today announced added support for the growing number of hardware startups they fund.

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