Episode 197: From Hardware Startup to Scale-Up
Roland Siebelink of Midstage Institute explains when a hardware startup should enter scale-up mode and how its leadership, team, focus, and systems must evolve.
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Episode 196: Close Manufacturing Readiness Gaps
Laura Teicher of FORGE explains how founders can close common design, testing, documentation, and supplier-readiness gaps before scaling manufacturing.
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Episode 195: Profitability on Shopify and Amazon
Tyler Jefcoat of Seller Accountant explains how product founders can choose between Shopify and Amazon, understand true costs, and scale profitably online.
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Episode 194: Sketch Design for Hardware Products
Magnus Sköld explains how rough, digital, and CAD sketches help product teams explore ideas, align quickly, and refine a strong hardware design direction.
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Episode 193: 3D Printing for New Inventions
Andre Tiemann of Hot Pop Factory explains the major 3D printing methods, materials, and uses across ideation, functional prototyping, and low-volume production.
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Episode 192: Build a Community That Sells
Lloyed Lobo explains how product founders can turn an audience into a community, create shared purpose, build trust, and grow through committed advocates.
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Episode 191: Grow Crowdfunding Campaign Sales
Mark Pecota of LaunchBoom explains how prelaunch lists, paid traffic, audience targeting, and disciplined campaign metrics can grow crowdfunding sales.
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Episode 190: Ethnographic Product Design
Thomas Ask explains how interviews, observation, empathy, cultural research, and customer feedback can guide stronger invention and product design decisions.
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Episode 189: Build a Strong Hardware Team
UPC barcode developer Paul McEnroe explains how complementary skills, shared goals, open communication, and strong leadership help hardware teams innovate.
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Episode 188: Use Customer Stories in Product Design
Suresh Sethi explains how customer stories, business constraints, communication, and empathy can guide stronger early hardware product design decisions.
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Episode 187: eCommerce Strategy for Hardware
Lamees Butt of Zoovu explains product discovery, connected online experiences, strong product data, and conversion strategy for hardware eCommerce.
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Episode 186: Product Renderings for Inventions
David Brown explains how photorealistic product renderings communicate materials, finishes, function, and value to customers, partners, and investors.
