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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact. Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch).

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

manufacturing jobs. Combine that with the offshoring mania among established manufacturers, and you've got a full-blown crisis. But don't blame private equity for underinvesting in seed-stage manufacturing companies and thus failing to prepare the ground for the next Apple, Cisco, or Intel. The answer is yes.