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Collaborative Design

SparkFun Electronics Inc 9 years old 135 employees (41 dogs) Self-funded 50/50 global/domestic split Making it up as we go

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SparkFun Builds Businesses

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You can build it!

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Website!

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Warehouse?

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Three Outcomes

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Three Outcomes

Sell a few Keep your day job Make enough to pay for more tools

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Three Outcomes

Sell Pebble Quit your day job Go to China

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Three Outcomes

“This  is  what  you'll get. It took us about 6 minutes to test/cal, screw, and kit this. We just have.... 150 to go...”  (900  minutes  =  15  hours)

Pit of Despair Can’t  quit.  Must  ship.

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Collaborate!

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Collaborations Work

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Some  Collaborations  Don’t  Work

It’s  hard It  doesn’t  always  work  out

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The Nut to Crack

Funding Marketplace Community Help Designed for unorthodox-manufacturing Crowd sourced assembly