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Brady Forrest Talks About Building a Hardware Startup (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the another-way-to-make-hardware-is-to-leave-milk-out-for-elves dept.

Brady Forrest is co-author of The Hardware Startup: Building Your Product, Business, and Brand. He has extensive experience building both products and startups, including staffing, financing, and marketing. If you are thinking or dreaming about doing a startup, you should not only watch the video to "meet" Brady, but read the transcript for more info than the video covers.

8 comments

  1. Successes? by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 1

    What have been some of Brady Forrest's successes? Why is he 'selling books' if he is successful at startups? Why isn't he a billionaire running a company?

    1. Re:Successes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      From what I can find he has been successful at building hipster cred (Burning Man, robot building, writing, etc)

    2. Re:Successes? by Roblimo · · Score: 1

      I can't speak about Brady, but there are lots books out there written by successful millionaire/billionaire business people. Warren Buffett has some titles out under his own name, notably "The Oracle Speaks," and he is without question "a billionaire running a company?"

      Books are often more about ego or self-promotion than about royalties. And if you listen to mega-successful IT startup/IPO people, right after they get rich,many of them say the next they're going to do is write a book.

      Of course, writing a book is hard, so few of them actually do it without a coauthor.

      Thinking of which... I'm sort of available. I've written three books under my own name and two as a quiet ghost. No reason I couldn't take on another one. Anyone out there want to talk? (I'm at least 1/2 serious here.)

    3. Re:Successes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh, a kind of junior Bre Pettis?

    4. Re:Successes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      holy shit

      a three-digit and not only that, it's rob! hi rob! *waves*.

      holy shit holy shit holy shit, that's like an albino unicorn with... with... two horns... or something.

  2. If the subjct interests you... by gwolf · · Score: 2

    I strongly suggest watching Vincent Sanders and Daniel Silverstone at their 2007 DebConf talk, From concept to concrete. It's far from my work line, but I clearly remember it as informative and fun — eight years later!

  3. WTFG by radarskiy · · Score: 1

    I though I would do a google search to find out what hardware products Brady Forrest has been involved with, but it turns out I could have just saved my time and gone straight to posting here "Who the fuck is Brady Forrest?"

    I found a bunch of stuff about running some incubator and starting a series of talks. Nothing about making anything.