Launch Silicon Chef 2013

ShopLocket co-founder Katherine Hague's presentation from the 2013 Silicon Chef , the women-centric hardware hackathon October 5-6 in San Francisco.

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1. G E T T I N G Y O U R I D E A T O M A R K E T L A U N C H
2. A B O U T U S FOCUS ON HARDWARE BLUEPRINT SERIES MYSELF S T O R I E S L A U N C H A C A D E M Y
3. I want to tell you some stories, of people just like you.
4. M U S E $287,472 raised on Indiegogo $6 million in series A financing 6 months until product ships
5. “I've been given a lot of advice but if I were to give advice to another entrepreneur I think it would be that the manufacturing process is always going to take longer than you thought.”
6. O P E N R O V $111,622 raised on Kickstarter 1800+ community members 50+ countries
7. "I think the most important things people can do in life are the things that are motivated from a gut feeling; they have no logical explanation. They're not a means to an end; they're the end."
8. N O M I K U $586,061 raised on Kickstarter 1,880 backers on Kickstarter 111 days as part of HAXLR8R
9. “Nobody runs on money in a startup. They run on ideas, love for each other, and love for the product. That is what is going to pull you through.”
10. O T H E R M I L L $311,657 raised on Kickstarter 652 backers on Kickstarter 15lbs weight of the Othermill
11. “Your time is worth so much more when you're growing than if you're just doing the same thing that you've been doing for the past five years.”
12. L O C K I T R O N $2,278,891 in pre-orders $2 MM + video views 14,704 units sold
13. "I would say that even though it's in our name, we're not a lock company. We're much more about knowing who you are relative to the device. We see it as social hardware. We think that's going to be one of the main ways people interact with their devices."
14. R O O M I N AT E $85,964 raised on Kickstarter 1,154 backers on Kickstarter 3,000 units shipped for the 2012 holiday season
15. “When I was eight, I asked my dad for a Barbie and instead he gave me a saw because he didn't really want Barbies in the house.”
16. L I T T L E B I T S 150,000+ circuit combos 20 awards won 700,000 views on TEDtalk
17. “My advice is to not try to rush too much and to acknowledge and accept that hardware cannot work as beta so!tware, as much as we would like to. It really requires more attention and iteration.”
18. There are lots of people that want to help
19. A C C E L E R AT O R S
20. C R O W D F U N D I N G
21. S H O P L O C K E T. C O M / B L U E P R I N T B L U E P R I N T D O W N L O A D T H E G U I D E / R E A D T H E S T O R I E S / K AT H E R I N E @ S H O P L O C K E T. C O M