The Product Startup Podcast is the hardware product development industry's #1 podcast. From developing invention ideas to getting onto store shelves and everything in between. Hear how inventors, product startups, and small manufacturers created their inventions and launched their physical product businesses. Learn from the industry's top industrial designers, mechanical engineers, PCB designers, consumer product managers, manufacturers, patent attorneys, hardware investors, and more. Learn about industrial design/product design, prototyping, 3d printing, additive manufacturing, product manufacturing, marketing, selling, patenting, logistics, and product business scaling.
Hosted by Kevin Mako, North America’s leading expert on product development for physical product startups, founder of MAKO Design + Invent, keynote speaker, and Masters of Engineering lecturer. Sponsored by PTC’s best-in-class software solutions Onshape: The only cloud-native product development platform that delivers full-featured computer-aided design (CAD), integrated product data management (PDM) and enterprise analytics in a single system, and Creo: 3D CAD solution that provides designers with the most innovative tools to build better products faster, such as generative design, additive manufacturing, real-time simulation, IoT, and augmented reality. Produced by MAKO Design + Invent, the original firm providing world-class consumer product development services tailored to startups, small manufacturers, and inventors.
March 28, 2024
With Kevin Lavelle, CEO & Co-Founder of Mizzen+Main and Harbor
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March 21, 2024
With Wesleyne Whittaker, CEO of Transformed Sales
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March 14, 2024
With Yuri Dvoinos, CIO of Aura & Serial Entrepreneur
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March 11, 2024
With Wade Harmidy, Operations & Project Manager at MAKO Design + Invent
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March 1, 2024
With Michael Lebhar, CEO and Co-Founder of SellCord
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February 22, 2024
With Alex Back, Founder of Couch.com & Former COO and Founder of Apt2B
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February 15, 2024
With Lesley Hensell, Co-Founder of Riverbend Consulting & Author
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February 5, 2024
With Jason Friedman, CEO at CXFormula
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January 28, 2024
With Nikhil Joshi, CEO of SNic Solutions
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January 18, 2024
With Taylor Frame, Co-Founder of Focus Funnels
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January 12, 2024
With Ori Yudilevich, CTO of Materials Zone
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December 28, 2023
With Kelley Thornton, CEO of Tiege Hanley, Inc.
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December 22, 2023
With Steven Weigler, Founding Attorney at EmergeCounsel
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December 14, 2023
With Dan Shea, Managing Director of Objective, Investment Banking and Valuation
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December 13, 2023
With Tomide Adesanmi, Founder of Circuit Mind
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About: MAKO Design + Invent is the original firm providing world-class consumer product development services tailored to startups, small manufacturers, and inventors. Simply put, we are the leading one-stop-shop for developing your physical product from idea to store shelves, all in a high-quality, cost-effective, and timely manner. We operate as one powerhouse 30-person product design team spread across 4 offices to serve you (Austin, Miami, San Francisco, & Toronto). We have full-stack in-house industrial design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, patent referral, prototyping, and manufacturing services. To assist our startup and inventor clients, in addition to above, we help with business strategy, product strategy, marketing, and sales/distribution for all consumer product categories. Also, our founder Kevin Mako hosts The Product Startup Podcast, the industry's leading hardware podcast. Check it out for tips, interviews, and best practices for hardware startups, inventors, and product developers. Click HERE to learn more about MAKO Design + Invent!