The Boring Startup

Oftentimes when you think of attending industry shows you think about the excitement of walking the floor and making that key contact and scoring that perfect partnership or contract. That makes for great episodes of Silicon Valley but there is a lot of boring work that is required ahead of time that nobody is making TV episodes about. Tune in to this episode as I cover the slog of prepping for our first industry show.

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In this episode I share the excitement I'm feeling of doing mundane stuff to ship pucks. No flashy VC-funded process here. I'm literally cutting out thank you cards with scissors. Hear about this and more boring stuff that goes into delivering product to customers.

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In this episode I talk about a very important milestone. The StatFeedr store is live and pucks are shipping. It's simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying that people are paying money for a product I made.

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In the quest to get team pucks into customers hands I finally decided to bite the bullet and purchase a CNC mill. Screw the machine shops that won't return my calls or want to charge me an arm and a leg. We're going to try to machine the pucks ourselves to get started. I have no idea if this will work or if it's a good use of very limited funds but we have to try.

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Recently someone approached us about pitching the puck to an unnamed company to see if they wanted to license the product. If successful this would be a royalty arrangement. We ultimately decided to turn down the offer but the interaction brought up some very interesting questions about how a royalty contract works for a smart product that needs constant cloud support.

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So many people think social media is just a self-indulgent kid's toy. If you can see through the noise you'll find that all of the platforms give infant businesses a huge advantage.

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Time for a nerdy tech episode. Using C or C++ for firmware development is a hotly debated topic in the engineering community. This episode is my take on "Why not both?"

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This episode is a raw look into everything that's going on inside my head around finding time to start a company while having a full time job and family. Some days quitting the day job seems obvious and other days my brain convinces me it's stupid even to think about it.

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In this episode I talk about what I like about the ESP32 module and Espressif ecosystem and what are some things that might be roadblocks. I do some comparisons with the Particle P1 module which is currently being used in the puck project.

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On this episode I talk about counterfeit capitalism and how it affects what kind of company I'm trying to build. I also muse on what's holding me back from selling the puck inventory I have sitting in my office.

Here is a link to the article referenced in this episode:

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/wework-and-counterfeit-capitalism

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