Going from Maker to Product While Keeping your Day Job

Maker Faire Bay Area 2018

May 18th-20th

Presentation Education

Have a cool idea? I’ll share how I turned an idea into a shipping product and share lessons learned along the way from customer validation, crowd funding, marketing, investor reality TV view, and an investor pitch deck example.

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Al Linke

Al Linke is Senior Director of IT at a Fortune 500 company. Al is the creator of the PIXEL: LED ART platform and a wearable LED handbag. Al was a cast member on the reality TV shows “America’s Greatest Makers" and "Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch".

Categories: Education, Art & Design, Fashion, Microcontrollers, Wearables

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