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Dan Shapiro, CEO and co-founder of Glowforge, talks with us about the impact of the Maker movement.
The 2013 class of HAXLR8R startups showed their stuff to a crowd of reporters, investors, and fellow hardware hackers at San Francisco’s Runway yesterday. The demo day event drew more than 100 people and was part coming out party and part fundraising pitch. The startups has all just returned from 111 days in China and many launched crowdfunding campaigns to coincide with the event.
VC have a role in the maker market. Investors bring more than their money to the table. Business relationships and experience to advise a new CEO can be a major advantage for a hardware start-up if they find the right investor for them.
Figuring out how much to charge for your product is the second most common question entrepreneurs ask themselves. The first is of course…”what should I build in the first place.” Assuming you’ve made it past the first question and there is a market for your product, you have to figure out how to price your product. I reached out to several entrepreneurs for real world examples you can use for your hardware startup.
The 7th NY Hardware Startup Meetup was held at Alley NYC, which describes their co-working space as a “safe haven for all things awesome.” At the beginning an upcoming event for homemade PCBs was announced and interest from the crowd was extremely high. The meetup provided a platform for makers of MyBell, Heart Matrix, and the Bike Computer to solicit public votes in the final hours of New York’s Next Top Makers competition. Voting ends in just a few hours, so if you have a moment you can vote for as many projects as you want. More than 100 people attended, including hardware manufacturers, technology reporters, and makers seeking collaboration on upcoming projects.
