Silicon ValleyThe Valley’s dilemma of making things

Entrepreneurship Lecture at Kyoto University

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Kenshin FujiwaraCo-founder, Makers Boot Camp

My First Job

Silicon Valley Startups for The Past 10 Years

New Breed of Startups

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Pebble Oculus VR

Anki Triggertap

Hardware Startup Born in Kansai

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Ecosystem Behind Hardware Startups

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Story of Triggertap

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Triggertap CEO’s Blog

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How Most Hardware Startups Do Prototyping

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Arduino 3D Printer CNC Mill

Initial Prototypes

Final Version

Budgeted Cost vs. Actual Cost

Underestimating The Cost of Mass Production

$99 $350Kickstarter Actual

Untold Story of Kickstarter

More than 80% of successful campaigns on Kickstarter fail to ship their first product.

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Life of Hardware Startup

Concept: Arduino based PrototypeMFP: Minimal Functional PrototypeCFP: Complete Functional PrototypeDFM: Design for ManufactureFFR: First Factory RunRetail: Marketing and Sales

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Life of Hardware Startup

Death of DFM

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Solving The Problem of DFM

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Working with Kyoto Shisaku Net

Makers Boot Camp

Makers Boot Camp

Acceleration Program

Kyoto Shisaku Net

Prototyping Professionals

Fund raising support

Mass-production ready prototyping &

mentoring

Hardware education

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Announcement Event

Thank you.

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