Dan Shapiro's Blog – Page 3 – CEO of Glowforge, creator of Robot Turtles, proud dad (original) (raw)
- July 16, 2014
Gweek 155: The cheap RC plane I talked about
Five years ago (!!!) I gave an Ignite talk on cheap RC airplanes. In one of my prouder geek moments Mark Frauenfelder, a maker-hero of mine, posted it to Boingboing. And that was…
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- March 29, 2014
Market first
I’m told Amazon writes the press release for a product before beginning development. I don’t know exactly how the process works, but this has been sloshing around in my head mixed in…
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- December 19, 2013
Anatomy of a $631,230 Kickstarter Video
First things first: the last of the Robot Turtles Kickstarter production run is still available on Amazon for 34.95plus34.95 plus 34.95plus9.95 US shipping, with international shipping available. If you order today, Dec 19,…
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- September 16, 2013
Robot Turtles midmortem at $250k
Robot Turtles has been an amazing ride. From a goofy idea in the shower, to some clipart, to a print on demand game for my family… to a $250,000 wild ride that…
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- September 9, 2013
Robot Turtles: the board game that teaches preschoolers to program
Would you believe that I got so excited about the project that I forgot to post it to my own blog?! I launched a game on Kickstarter called Robot Turtles. You can…
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- August 20, 2013
What I Learned from the Breaking Bad Percolator
Those of you who caught my talk at Ignite 21 already know that I’m a thoughtful coffee convert, going from 1-2 cups per week to 2-3 cups per day when I discovered…
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- July 22, 2013
Leaving Google (for now)
Some places are just delightful to work. Two years ago, Google bought my startup, Sparkbuy. Ever since I’ve been leading a delightful double life as a PM on the Google Ads team…
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- July 22, 2013
How to do Hardware
I’m delighted to announce that I’m advising Highway One, a new SF-based incubator for hardware startups. Why does the world need another incubator? Because hardware’s hard, and hardware’s different. And Highway One…
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- July 6, 2013
Camping like a startup
Originally published on Sulia We went camping with the family this weekend. We’d never done it before. That’s OK, first time for everything. We spent a lot of time figuring out our…
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- May 21, 2013
Shark Tank: The 3 worst startup mistakes made on TV’s best reality show
This article first ran as a guest post in Geekwire. For a long time I’ve felt like I must be either the first or last entrepreneur to discover the ABC series Shark…
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