Emile Petrone: Turning Your Idea into Business

This is a talk by Emile Petrone, CEO of Tindie, presented at Makerland 2014 conference. This story contains experiences and lessons from over 300 Makers that went Pro and turned their hobby into business with Tindie.

Video of this talk: https://vimeo.com/91460466

Transcript

1. Lessons from over 300 Makers that went Pro @emilepetrone @tindie emile@tindie.com
4. “As Clay Christensen has long argued, many important new inventions start out looking like toys. “ ! Chris Dixon , 8/4/2012 @cdixon
5. Emile Petrone founder of Tindie
7. Where did this all begin?
13. If it works for crafts, why not these projects?
18. 4 months later…
23. With 1,900 products, what have we learned?
24. Change is in the air
25. You don’t have to graduate from MIT or be the (ex) editor of Wired
26. Make it work
27. Then Refine
28. Design to scale
29. PCB Manufacturing
30. PCB Manufacturing
31. Sourcing Parts
32. Sourcing Parts
33. Assembly
34. Assembly
35. Stay In Stock!
36. 2.4 - 2.6x
37. Copy cats
38. International from Day 1
40. “Fuck absolutely everything about signing 104 customs forms xD”
41. Fulfillment
42. Shipping Materials
43. Support
44. Fraud
45. Mistakes
46. Tindie Graduation
47. What’s next?
48. Marketplace for indie tech Today
49. Accept Custom Projects Expand tools for Makers to Go Pro
50. tindie.com/secret code: makerland
51. See the next GoPro before it goes Pro.
55. Thank you! @emilepetrone @tindie PS find me for a Tindie shirt \o/ emile@tindie.com