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Hosted by Sera Evcimen · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 28 episodes
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The premier podcast for hardware entrepreneurs and builders to build a successful hardware product/system and company. Think of the episodes as a curriculum for anyone wanting to build a hardware startup ! Being a hardware founder or team can be a daunting task with long lead times, low budgets, high risks and many unknown unknowns. The podcast aims to demystify the methods and processes to follow to tackle the difficulties in the hardware startup world with digestible and practical conversations with hardware engineers , hardware entrepreneurs , venture-creation specialists and hardware investors . The host, Sera Evcimen is the Founder of Pratik , a hardware advising and coaching c
Sera Evcimen hosts The Builder Circle®: Hardware Success Podcast, a business show with 28 episodes published.
Darby Dunn, embodying excellence in #manufacturing and #operations, she joins the show drawing from her tenure at SpaceX building the Dragon spacecraft, and now at Commonwealth Fusion Systems where she’s helping develop
Peter Russo, entrepreneur and hardware mentor who has founded and sold multiple companies, shares decades of hard-won wisdom on working with contract manufacturers. With 15+ brands created, 2,000+ SKUs launched, and $250
Christian Reed, CEO of Reekon Tools, shares how he bootstrapped a hardware company from a side project to a multi-million dollar (8 figure) business without any VC funding. Learn how a $1.2M Kickstarter campaign validate
Stay updated on hardware startup strategy packages (The Building Blocks by The Builder Circle) coming soon: https://forms.gle/8vQycwzeMvm43kPc6 In this special episode, host Sera reflects on the journey of The Builder Ci
We want to hear from you! Leave your feedback on the show: https://forms.gle/z5JS5t8dWG26jx5k7 Why Listen? This episode dives deep into the realities of hardware hacking, open-source innovation, and the global landscape
Host Sera Evcimen welcomes Kristen Edwards, CTO and co-founder of Pensa Technologies and PhD candidate at MIT, for a deep dive into the intersection of artificial intelligence and hardware engineering. Kristen shares her
Carlota Ochoa is a Principal at Extantia Capital, leading UK operations for the fund. With a background in commodities at Merrill Lynch, operational experience in startups, and a senior management role at Amazon’s consum
This episode digs into incubators vs. accelerators for hardware founders, featuring Raphaele Leyendecker, Managing Director at Techstars Sustainability Paris, climate-tech entrepreneur, and investor in 75+ startups. If y
This episode is all about navigating the complex world of tariffs and global trade compliance for hardware startups, featuring Gabrielle Griffith, Director at BPE Global, a leading trade compliance consulting firm. Gabri
This episode is all about hardware, with none other than Jon Hirschtick, the mind behind SolidWorks and Onshape (onshape.pro/thebuildercircle). Jon has spent his career building the tools that engineers use to design, pr
This podcast episode features an in-depth conversation with Ying Liu CEO of BlueLake Packaging, a seasoned expert in hardware product development and the sustainable packaging industry. Drawing from her extensive experie
Quality or sustaining engineering sound like big initiatives that only exist in big companies like GE or P&G but this is a common misconception in the startup world. Having a quality mindset and culture should come into
In this podcast, TBC host and Pratik founder Sera Evcimen has a discussion with patent attorney Troy Grabow about the importance of intellectual property (IP) strategy for hardware startups. They explore the differences
In this episode, Kristine Barnes shares her extensive experience in the world of complex systems, straddling the fields of nuclear power and automotive engineering. She hails from General Motors and an executive member o
In this deep-dive episode, Greg Paulsen, Director of Applications, Engineering and Marketing at Xometry, discusses the complexities and intricacies of physical product development. He highlights the importance of underst
Scott Miller is back again on the Builder Circle! A true hardware veteran, in this episode we will be privileged enough to talk with him within the realm of his professional sweet spot: how to properly scale your manufac
From leveraging your ecosystem to building your product roadmap and from managing your board to determining who to hire and why, this episode has it all. Pete Blake from Sapphire Steel is a fellow All-Star Mentor at Tech
This episode features a conversation between host, Sera Evcimen, and Alan Cohen, author of 'Prototype to Product: A Practical Guide for Getting to Market'. They delve into the complexities, misconceptions and opportuniti
Elecia White has worked on DNA scanners, inertial measurement units for airplanes and race cars, toys for preschoolers, a gunshot location system for catching criminals, and assorted other medical and consumer devices. S
Orin Hoffman is a seasoned hardware veteran and VC investor passionate about enabling hardware through capital. In this episode we dive into two main questions: How does a hardware entrepreneur strategically source capit
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Alan Cohen
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Ying Liu
BlueLake Packaging
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Matt Lipsitz
Formlabs
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Kristine Barnes
General Motors
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Greg Paulsen
Xometry
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Pete Blake
Sapphire Steel
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Elecia White
Logical Elegance
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The Builder Circle®: Hardware Success Podcast is hosted by Sera Evcimen. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 28 episodes.
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