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How to Select the Right Demand Forecasting Method for Your Startup

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Demand forecasting is tough when you have a rich set of historic figures. What methods can you use when data to guide your hardware startup… Read More »

Managing Your Money: Finance 101 for Hardware Startups

Finance and Feasibility, Production at Scale

Finance 101 for Hardware Startups. Check out our mini-MBA primer for hardware entrepreneurs that may not come from a finance background. Do you have plan… Read More »

How to Finance Your Hardware Startup Based on Growth Stage

Finance and Feasibility, Production at Scale

Appropriate financing mechanisms for your hardware startup vary by growth stage. Learn more about when a convertible note – AKA “debt wanting to be equity”… Read More »

Industry Standards: How Being Too Innovative Could Cost You Your Business

Regulation and Certification

Innovation is the name of the game in hardware startups…except when it isn’t. A rich grounding in industry standards is critical to technology adoption in… Read More »

4 Cost Categories that You Should Factor into Your Financial Models

Finance and Feasibility

The sunk cost fallacy has sunk many hardware start-ups. Understand the various cost categories that should inform your financial models and startup business decisions. Product… Read More »

Why this Hardware Startup Failed After Raising $100 Million in Funding

Product Design, Supply Chain

Hardware entrepreneurs: learn from the tragi-comic failure of Juicero. The failure to embrace human-centered design led to product flaws that seem obvious in hindsight. Don’t… Read More »

3 Things That Made This $200M Clean-Energy Startup Go Bankrupt

Finance and Feasibility, Product Design, Regulation and Certification

Everything seemed to be going right for Aquion Energy…until it wasn’t. Despite brand-name funders and a proven entrepreneurial leader, the battery company was drained by… Read More »

What's Resource Planning and Why Should I Care

What Exactly Is Resource Planning and Why Should I Care?

Supply Chain

Resource planning has evolved. The latest technologies allow hardware startups to develop processes that will scale with them as they grow. Learn how to successfully… Read More »

Why 96% of Best-in-Class Companies Use Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Supply Chain

Despite the amazing capabilities of current ERP systems, they somehow continue to improve. A confluence of cloud-based computing and big data have allowed companies to… Read More »