Hey guys I'm from Upverter (we make easy to use EDA software for hardware engineers to design electronics) "The discipline of building hardware at scale is not something you can easily learn at school, even at university. While the path (e.g. tools, knowledge base, peer community) to become a g...
I frequently communicate with a lot of hardware startup founders who began their projects on kickstarter and some of the most common nuggets of wisdom i hear from them are summarized in this piece.
A little known fact about a lot of successful crowdfunding campaigns is that they presell the products before launching the project and then get those presold customers to flood kickstarter/indiegogo the day of to push the popularity of the project.