7 Tips to Start Small Scale Manufacturing | Business Ideas for Product Makers

If you’re interested in how to take advantage of small scale manufacturing with your business making stuff, hope you find these tips and ideas useful! Topics and timestamps below. Thanks Inventables for sponsoring this video. Check out the X-Carve: https://goo.gl/dBvSAL

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TOPICS AND TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:01 New Startup Opportunities
Talking about the new middle ground path between big businesses and small business that allows you to scale up your manufacturing with less risk
2:16 How We Started
Our own story, what products we first tried, how we started building our robot army
3:29 Small Scale Manufacturing
How small scale manufacturing is getting more accessible and better
5:32 Example Walk Through
Walk through the steps of one of our products that we designed with small scale manufacturing in mind
6:58 Product Design
Tips and ideas to keep in mind when designing products so that they can be made via micro-manufacturing
10:07 Competitive Advantage
Tips for your small business products to stand out against big business products
11:04 Outsourcing
Tips for when you’ve outgrown your home shop and you need to scale bigger

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