My guest is Damien Ng, co-founder of Backers, a chain of stores in Asia that wants to help crowdfunded projects bring closer to the consumer mass market. To my knowledge they’re the first such initiative in the world.
With Backers Damien saw a gap experienced by crowdfunded projects: they take place in the virtual world whereas because most of the time those products are physical, they should actually be experienced physically.
I met Damien in their office in Hong Kong, where I conducted this interview.
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I have as guest Andreas Braendle, co-founder and CEO of Battere.
Battere manages to stand out in a crowded market and it’s a great example about how a company can innovate by thinking hard and executing on a novel business model instead of trying to make money on innovating on the battery-technology.
As for Andreas, he is PhD dropout who first founded a music teacher platform-based startup called instrumentor, which still operates today. His latest venture is called Battere, which he founded 4 years ago out of his passion for hardware and electricity distribution.
We’ll discuss how they iterated on the business-model to get to the current state, the idea behind changing between b2b and b2c orientation, their pricing strategy, and many more. Enjoy.
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In this episode my guest is Florian Simmendinger, co-founder and CEO of Soundbrenner.
Soundbrenner is maker of the world’s first wearable smart device for musicians. Their product is called Soundbrenner Pulse and their ambitious goal is to help every single musician on the planet to achieve rhythmic perfection. Their Indiegogo campaign on their first device, a smart vibrating metronome, was very successful with pre-orders in total of around $250 000. This market validation of their product then allowed them to receive a seed funding of of $0.5 million and most recently an additional $1.5 million USD of financing.
I met Florian’s company at Global Source faire in Hong Kong where they exhibited their exciting product. In this episode their fascinating story will be presented. We will touch on many topics, on their motivation for founding, their journey so far, including details on successful crowd-funding, manufacturing, elements of his personality, etc.
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My guest is Bay McLaughlin, co-founder and COO of Brinc, a remarkable hardware accelerator focusing on IoT. This is the first interview on an accelerator on this show.
Brinc is a global IoT accelerator and platform based in Hong Kong with offices in Shenzhen and Guangzhou.
Bay, who co-founded Brinc about 2.5 years ago, has long years of startup experience. He has spent half of his career in or founding startups. He was founding team member of Apple’s global SMB channel and founder of their first Entrepreneurship Evangelism channel. With 8 software and 14 hardware portfolio holdings, he’s successfully made the transition from digital to physical and from San Francisco to Asia.
In this episode we bring you the story of Brinc. Raw transcript is available at: https://www.thehardwareentrepreneur.com
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