How to Be a Successful Hardware Startup

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We're being very measured in our approach we understand there's going to be a lot of demand for this but we want to keep a really high quality bar. The initial runs are in the thousands tens of thousands while we've you know ensure that everything from a manufacturing standpoint is spot on. And so that that's what this year has been all about. We're shipping out our kind of final beta units to our you know beta folks in the next few weeks. Then we roll right in from that into production later this fall and start to fulfill that way listen and pre-orders.

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Sol Reader CEO Ben Chelf joins Jason to discuss Sol Reader’s design (1:24), how wearable e-readers will create more focused readers (28:06) the ways in which devices reshape the human brain (24:37), and much more!

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(00:00) Sol Reader CEO Ben Chelf joins Jason (4:00) Ben presents the prototype and demos Sol Reader (8:28) LLM and future integrations for Sol Reader (12:40) .Tech Domains - Apply to get your startup featured on This Week in Startups at https://startups.tech/jason (14:04) Overcoming the challenges of a hardware startup (17:59) Sol Reader’s business model (21:09) Audio integration and transcript features (23:22) Optimizing Sol Reader's first product launch (26:38) Crowdbotics - Get a free scoping session for your next big app idea at ⁠https://crowdbotics.com/twist⁠ (28:06) The origin of the wearable e-reader concept and efforts to diminish screen time (38:45) Issuu - Sign up for free or get 50% off an annual premium account by using promo code twist at https://issuu.com/podcast (40:05) Initial product testers' feedback

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