Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?

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Post by tigrella » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 3:54 PM UTC

Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?
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Re: Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?

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Post by misiti3780 » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 4:34 PM UTC

Finding a talented EE for 75K/year seems like an impossible endeavor (if I read this correctly)

Re: Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?

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Post by aswanson » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 4:40 PM UTC

An ee that can program and do some simple mechanical design can do all that engineering himself.

Re: Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?

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Post by Michie » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 4:41 PM UTC

Thanks for the nice write up.

Hope someone can do an explanation like this for a software startup too.

Re: Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?

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Post by officialchicken » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 4:43 PM UTC

misiti3780 wrote: post #2

Finding a talented EE for 75K/year seems like an impossible endeavor (if I read this correctly)

Finding an injection mold with tooling for 5K is also in the realm of impossible (and probably unusable if found), certainly for PCB enclosures.

Re: Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?

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Post by hodwik » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 4:43 PM UTC

On a side note, is there a site like hacker news for Hardware?

Re: Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?

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Post by runako » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 4:46 PM UTC

misiti3780 wrote: post #2

Finding a talented EE for 75K/year seems like an impossible endeavor (if I read this correctly)

They have this person budgeted at $80k/year (the figures are amortized over the time to develop the first run of 5k). $80k + founding stock may be reasonable (though possibly not in SF).

Re: Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?

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Post by mdunn » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 4:49 PM UTC

hodwik wrote: post #6

On a side note, is there a site like hacker news for Hardware?

/r/hwstartups on reddit is a good place to start.

Re: Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?

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Post by vvanders » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 4:51 PM UTC

hodwik wrote: post #6

On a side note, is there a site like hacker news for Hardware?

EEVBlog is not a bad place, although it's not really news oriented.

Re: Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?

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Post by geerlingguy » Tue, Aug 25, 2015, 4:53 PM UTC

hodwik wrote: post #6

On a side note, is there a site like hacker news for Hardware?

Also check out http://hackaday.com/ - not quite the same, but much more hardware-focused.