107: Using Hardware Incubators for Product Startups

Product Startup

Dec 22 2021 • 28 mins

Alex Dantas is CEO of CircuitLaunch, one of California’s top hardware accelerator facilities.  CircuitLaunch is an almost 40,000 square foot hardware innovation space and makerspace for inventors, hardware startups, and hardware companies.  Mako Design is also a long-standing partner in the space.  Today Alex is going to share some valuable knowledge on how inventors, startups, and small manufacturers can utilize facilities like Circuitlaunch to develop their invention product ideas, then scale them to the big leagues.  He is also going to give his advice on what really works to ensure startup success given the hundreds of startups he has watched come through their doors.

Today you will hear us talk about:

  • Alex’s background of persistence in the USA
  • The power of hardware incubation facilities for hardware startups
  • Makerspaces are evolving into co-facturing
  • The value of hardware labs for product startups
  • The value of education around hardware communities
  • Short-run manufacturing for North American hardware startups


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