Maybe Crowdfunding through Kickstarter — the dominant player — is a successful strategic mode for a reasonable percentage of the more or less 200 low-cost, desktop, 3D printer companies now in our 3DP…
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Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 6)
In Part 5, we left Kickstarterwith a problem from the “funding success” of too many YowzaPrinters (see Part 3 for my definition)—but with “yikes!” results, post the funding milestone. KS has bec…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 5)
In the last four years, the 3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing and/or Digital Fabrication sector (collectively: “3DP”) has nearly tripled in size. In 2013, expansion reached nearly 35 percent. With u…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 4)
Welcome back — for Part 4 of our series on Crowdfunding, 3D-printer ‘Preneurs and suicidal gaming of the new 3DP/startup/mob-VC “ecosystem.” Here’s a quick recap (with direct links back to previous “…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 3)
Part 1 of this series presented an introductory overview of crowd funding vis a vis 3D printer startups and the dynamism, democratization, distortions and dangers that this new and novel mode of bankr…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 2)
Part 1 of this series presented an introductory view of crowdfunding vis a vis 3D printer start-ups and the dynamism, democratization, distortions and dangers this new and novel mode of bankrolling fo…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 1)
Could the democratization of tech-based entrepreneurship be both a boon and a bane? Our Four (STEAM-driven) Disruptors (the PC, the Internet, Social Media and 3D printing) have certainly assured that …
Interview: Grace X. Gu, UC Berkeley, developer of a self-correcting 3D printer
In 2017 multinational pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, launched the WiSTEM2D Scholars Award program to increase the representation of women in six scientific and technical fields. Open to…
Tridom Joins the Race for 3D Printed Affordable Housing
Technology can help the world address the gap between industrialized and developing countries. Mobile phones, for example, made it possible to rapidly bring the Web to the poorest nations in the world…
With the Ester and the Sintratec, the Race is On for Desktop LS 3D Printing
This week the home-brewed Ester SLS 3D printer and the Sintratec both launched crowdfunding campaigns on Indiegogo, looking to bring desktop laser sintering (LS) 3D printers to market. Both campaigns …