Making requires curiosity, creativity, and courage. Makers are people who think critically in order to find solutions to difficult problems. Finding the right solution, however, takes a lot of wrong prototypes. Only through this iterative process do we find the best path forward. This is true of both products and business models. As a company, TechShop…
Mathilde at Making Society offers a great recap on open hardware business models here in this post. Is really worth a read as it also builds on top of recently presented works at the Open Hardware Summit in Rome. A major question for open source hardware is about its business models. How can you create…
Very important and valuable presentation, again from the program of the Open Hardware Summit in Rome (October 14). Key information for anyone interested in starting a business in open hardware. This is an extended version of the presentation I did at the Open Hardware Summit 2014 in Rome, during the open hardware business models workshop…
Few days ago, I stumbled upon Angel, an amazing project for a healthcare/fitness related wristband sensor. The project raised more than 300k$ on the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo and looks really well designed: what attracted my curiosity (we actually published a news few days ago) tough, was indeed it’s huge call to openness that was –…
After some time now, the Open Hardware Ecosystem and Business sector gained some significant traction. An excellent presentation by Mathilde Berchon was recently release at the open hardware summit, trying to summarize the increasingly interesting diversity and numbers of the OSHW business. Here’s some interesting passage in the talk: The number of open hardware startups…
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