(Picture by Jeremy Blum sciguy14 on Instagram)
I enjoyed this talk by from the Open Hardware Summit 2013 by Mathilide Berchon of the Making Society:
State of Open Hardware Entrepreneurship in 2013
http://makingsociety.com/2013/09/the-state-of-open-hardware-entrepreneurship-2013/
This Summit edition was also a big first time for me as I had never been to Boston, to the MIT or gave a talk in English in front of 500 attendees including heroes such as Lady Ada, Massimo Banzi or Nathan Seidle before. Such an amazing experience, and a lot of fun!
My presentation was about the State of Open Hardware Entrepreneurship in 2013. I feel that there is a need for the open hardware community to know more about ourselves. Because the movement is still new, there is very little data available regarding the entrepreneurial side of the movement. I tried to fill the gap.
I hope folks will pay attention to this slide from talk:
And her final piece of advice got a chuckle from the crowd (cus its true 
):
Also, pick a name that is truly special… “tiny”, “duino”, “labs” or “blocks” are already taken!
I'm curious to know what fellow Community members think of the statistics in this talk. Does it match with your perception of the industry?
Cheers,
Drew
