The Product Startup Podcast is the hardware product development industry's #1 podcast. From invention idea to getting onto store shelves, and everything in between. Hear how inventors, product startups, & small manufacturers created their inventions and launched their physical product businesses. Learn from the industry's top industrial designers, mechanical engineers, PCB designers, consumer product managers, manufacturers, patent attorneys, hardware investors, and more. Learn about industrial design / product design, prototyping, 3d printing, additive manufacturing, product manufacturing, marketing, selling, patenting, logistics, and product business scaling. Hosted by Kevin Mako, North America’s leading expert on product development for physical product startups, founder of MAKO Design + Invent, keynote speaker, and Masters of Engineering lecturer. Sponsored by PTC’s best-in-class software solutions Onshape: The only cloud-native product development platform that delivers full-featured computer-aided design (CAD), integrated product data management (PDM) and enterprise analytics in a single system, and Creo: 3D CAD solution that provides designers with the most innovative tools to build better products faster, such as generative design, additive manufacturing, real-time simulation, IoT, and augmented reality. Produced by MAKO Design + Invent, the original firm providing world-class consumer product development services tailored to startups, small manufacturers, and inventors.
September 21, 2023
With Magnus Skold, Senior Industrial Designer at MAKO Design + Invent
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September 14, 2023
With Andre Tiemann, Director of Production at Hot Pop Factory
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September 7, 2023
With Lloyed Lobo, Co-Founder of Boast.AI
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August 31, 2023
With Mark Pecota, Co-Founder + CEO of LaunchBoom
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August 24, 2023
With Thomas Ask, Professor of Industrial Design at Penn College
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August 17, 2023
With Paul McEnroe, Developer of UPC Barcodes
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August 10, 2023
With Suresh Sethi, Industrial Design Professor at the University of Illinois
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August 3, 2023
With Lamees Butt, SVP of Zoovu
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July 27, 2023
With David Brown, Design Engineer at Mako Design
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July 20, 2023
With Rich Walsh, CEO of CorVent Medical
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July 13, 2023
With Ethan Escowitz, Founder of Arris Composites
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July 6, 2023
With Yohan Jacob, CEO of RetailBound
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June 29, 2023
With Brian Thompson, Head of CREO at PTC
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June 22, 2023
With Neha Bansal, PM Lead Meta Ads Manager Reporting
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June 15, 2023
With Graeme Whitehead, Founder of CNCT Coolers
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About: MAKO Design + Invent is the original firm providing world-class consumer product development services tailored to startups, small manufacturers, and inventors. Simply put, we are the leading one-stop-shop for developing your physical product from idea to store shelves, all in a high-quality, cost-effective, and timely manner. We operate as one powerhouse 30-person product design team spread across 4 offices to serve you (Austin, Miami, San Francisco, & Toronto). We have full-stack in-house industrial design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, patent referral, prototyping, and manufacturing services. To assist our startup and inventor clients, in addition to above, we help with business strategy, product strategy, marketing, and sales/distribution for all consumer product categories. Also, our founder Kevin Mako hosts The Product Startup Podcast, the industry's leading hardware podcast. Check it out for tips, interviews, and best practices for hardware startups, inventors, and product developers. Click HERE to learn more about MAKO Design + Invent!