Episode 065: Hardware Funding From Seed Financing to Growth Capital
Episode 65 features Jeffery Potvin on seed financing, angel investment, venture rounds, and matching hardware funding to each stage of startup growth.
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Episode 064: Plan and Execute Your First Production Run
Episode 64 features Mike Morton on production readiness, overseas factory relationships, quality planning, financing, and a hardware startup’s first run.
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Episode 063: Hardware Startup Lessons From a 22-Year Apple Executive
Episode 63 features Michael Hageloh on product focus, brand messaging, hardware startup lessons from Apple, and where the industry may go next.
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Episode 062: Remove Friction From the Product Buying Process
Episode 62 features Eric Dickmann on product marketing, clearer messaging, customer buying friction, and making a new consumer product easier to purchase.
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Episode 061: Five Sales Channels Used to Launch an Invention
Episode 61 features Alison Brett on five sales channels, crowdfunding, founder-led selling, and launching the Clasp Magic invention worldwide.
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Episode 060: How to License a New Product Professionally
Episode 60 features Tom Gray on product licensing readiness, IP timing, partner outreach, trade shows, and pitching inventions professionally.
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Episode 059: Quality Control for Overseas Product Manufacturing
Episode 59 features Sajag Agarwal on overseas manufacturing quality control, inspection stages, factory incentives, and preventing costly defects.
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Episode 058: How to Pitch Your Product to Retail Buyers
Episode 58 features former Staples VP Mark Shanahan on retail buyer meetings, product pitches, credibility, value propositions, and reliability.
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Episode 057: From Invention Idea to $100,000 on Dragon’s Den
Episode 57 features Jonathan Schloo on inventing the Car Generator, validating demand, crowdfunding, and securing $100,000 on Dragon’s Den from investors.
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Episode 056: Product Launch Mistakes, Opportunities, and Founder Feedback
Episode 56 introduces Kevin Mako and explores common product launch mistakes, missed opportunities, founder feedback, and the podcast’s next chapter.
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Episode 055: Train Your Creativity to Generate Better Product Ideas
Episode 55 explores practical creativity methods for generating more product ideas, improving concepts, and building an inventor’s repeatable idea process.
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Episode 054: Developing a Food-Safe Children’s Product
Episode 54 follows the development of Milton the Mealtime Companion, covering product storytelling, food-safe considerations, and consumer engagement.