The Hardware Startup: Building Your Product, Business, and Brand 1st Edition

Absolutely worth the money for anyone starting a hardware startup who hasn't done so before. Lots of tactical advice that still applies 12 years later.

It is a very helpful overview of everything you need to be aware of as you begin your journey to build a new product!

Our company pivoted from software to hardware and this book was a good high level introduction. Every single topic should be a book in it of itself, so this is just an intro.

There hasn't really been a book that covered much about the hardware scene for entrepreneurs, so this one caught my attention quickly. This book goes into considerable detail into the journey of bringing a hardware product to market, and covers lots of bases. I don't think there is a better book out there with a global view of how this gets done. I found the manufacturing chapter really helpful as I started figuring out how to choose a factory for my own product. It's also surprisingly up to date and relevant on a phenomenon that is very recent. Hardware is a beast, so getting help from experienced folks in the field is invaluable.

In an age when it's easier than ever to build a one-off device, the number of hardware kickstaters, startups, and fledgling business is booming. But there's still a wide gulf between building something once and achieving success. This is a book from three people with deep experience on how to span that gulf: How to build the right product, how to go from a prototype to manufacturing, how to find your customers, how to price, and generally how to go from a great idea to a successful business.Highly recommended.

This is a great book that combines data and a lot of practical experience. The authors have advised and analyzed a ton of successful (and unsuccessful) startups and they've distilled it into a ton of institutional knowledge. If you're doing (or even considering doing) a hardware startup, you'd be nuts not to take some hours out to get the benefit of their fast amount of research and experience, there are not more efficient ways to get a bit up the learning curve than by reading this book.

Lots of information on things you don't think about being when you are making something great.Great reference to issues that will show up and how to address them.

Loved the section about accelerators, though some of them have already ceased to exist or have rebranded! Still, it teaches you what to look for in accelerators, not just their names. Same goes for the whole book, teaches you how to think as a hardware entrepreneur. Refreshing to get custom-tailored advice when most startup books only discuss SaaS