Everything that happens once volume becomes the problem: design for manufacturing, choosing and managing a contract manufacturer, tooling, yield, and the operational side of scaling. Several of these are hosted by people who run plants, so the advice is closer to the floor than to the whiteboard.
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How I Built This
Interviews with entrepreneurs and innovators about how they built their companies, including hardware startups.
Making It
Three makers discuss their experiences making things, running businesses, and their personal journeys in the maker world.
The Manufacturing Executive
Joe Sullivan talks with the leaders driving midsized manufacturers forward, alongside B2B sales and marketing experts, about growth strategy, industrial marketing, and modernising the shop floor.
Manufacturing Happy Hour
Chris Luecke interviews makers, founders, and manufacturing leaders about the trends and technologies reshaping modern manufacturing, going past the buzzwords into real tactics.
The Next Byte Podcast
We're two engineers on a mission to make interesting technology easy to understand. In each episode, we explore tech that is going to change the world – and keep it entertaining along the way.
Thoroughly Considered
Dan Provost, Tom Gerhardt, and Myke Hurley on product design, entrepreneurship, and the ups and downs of running a small indie physical-product business.
Go/No-Go
Lumafield on the calls that make or break a product — designing, manufacturing and shipping hardware, plus recall news and industrial CT scans of how things were really built.
The Builder Circle
Designed to empower hardware entrepreneurs, engineers and builders to overcome challenges, reduce risk and succeed in bringing their products to market through expert insights, practical advice, and engaging discussions on relevant topics.
NPI Sherpa
A tactical NPI survival manual for the brutal middle between a working prototype and high-volume profitability, covering DFM, production scaling, and operational resilience.
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The Hardware Entrepreneur
Balint Horvath interviews hardware founders around the world on designing, manufacturing, funding, and selling physical products.