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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. Republicans are so good at scams by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    That is why they're Republicans in the first place. This scammer has never had a successful product. Never. Not once. Not ever. Not even close. He is just one of those Republican scammers that steals from us. Steals from us.

  3. 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!

  4. 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.