7 Tips to Start Small Scale Manufacturing | Business Ideas for Product Makers

If you’re interested in how to take advantage of small scale manufacturing with your business making stuff, hope you find these tips and ideas useful! Topics and timestamps below. Thanks Inventables for sponsoring this video. Check out the X-Carve: https://goo.gl/dBvSAL How to Sell Handmade Products video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHGXNY7TWKg Fusion 360 CAM for CNC Beginners video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqnvzxuXFTQ Patreon & Aftershow https://www.patreon.com/evanandkatelyn Merch https://shopevanandkatelyn.com/ Instagram http://instagram.com/evanandkatelyn @evanandkatelyn Twitch live streams https://www.twitch.tv/evanandkatelyn TOPICS AND TIMESTAMPS ■ 1:01 New Startup Opportunities Talking about the new middle ground path between big businesses and small business that allows you to scale up your manufacturing with less risk ■ 2:16 How We Started Our own story, what products we first tried, how we started building our robot army ■ 3:29 Small Scale Manufacturing How small scale manufacturing is getting more accessible and better ■ 5:32 Example Walk Through Walk through the steps of one of our products that we designed with small scale manufacturing in mind ■ 6:58 Product Design Tips and ideas to keep in mind when designing products so that they can be made via micro-manufacturing ■ 10:07 Competitive Advantage Tips for your small business products to stand out against big business products ■ 11:04 Outsourcing Tips for when you’ve outgrown your home shop and you need to scale bigger TOOLS / MATERIALS (affiliate) ■ X-Carve: https://goo.gl/dBvSAL ■ Carvey https://goo.gl/Vh5mSt ■ 3d Printer (Taz6) https://goo.gl/oPZBwm ■ Lulzbot Mini https://goo.gl/kWgZRN ■ Peopoly Moai https://goo.gl/kKuTqz FILMING GEAR (affiliate) ■ Fujifilm X-T10 http://amzn.to/2pblgac (main camera) ■ 35mm F 1.4 lens http://amzn.to/2whwP0N (makes things look fancy) ■ Sony Cybershot DSC-RX100 V http://amzn.to/2DJTHJF (slow-mo camera) ■ Main tripod http://amzn.to/2whGqED ■ Pan head for tripod http://amzn.to/2fhX3wh ■ Lighting kit http://amzn.to/2vs5sDB ■ Wireless lav mics http://amzn.to/2BCqtKQ STAY UP TO DATE ■ Instagram http://instagram.com/evanandkatelyn @evanandkatelyn ■ Twitter https://twitter.com/EvanAndKatelyn ■ Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/evanandkatelyn/ ■ Blog http://evanandkatelyn.com ■ Etsy http://etsy.com/shop/evanandkatelyn MUSIC FN by David Cutter Music 3 Times by David Cutter Music Sunshine Rag licensed via Audioblocks Hot Coffee licensed via Audioblocks Dancing Bears Circus TV Theme licensed via Audioblocks JDI Friday Night licensed via Audioblocks Relas a While licensed via Audioblocks THANK YOU TO OUR TOP PATREON SUPPORTERS!! ■ Katelyn’s Mom ■ Brandon’s Bees https://goo.gl/XP93pp ■ Bruce A. Ulrich https://goo.gl/wqixxp ■ Kit Low ■ Infinite Craftsman https://goo.gl/hsj5S6 ■ Zach and Jazz https://goo.gl/bmqvxi ■ Corey Ward ■ Figments Made https://goo.gl/CbBRX1 ■ Vincent Ferrari https://goo.gl/myFzcE ■ Scooter’s Workbench https://goo.gl/sP7b9W ■ Corso Systems ■ Brett Hollifield ■ Matt Knopp ■ George Partin ■ Level52 Studios https://goo.gl/dmdrSq ■ David Ingram ■ Brooke Boen ■ Matt Baker ■ Jason Kaczmarsky ■ Cameron Dorsey ■ David Granz ■ Elliot Iddon ■ Maxine Denis ■ Francisco Peebles ■ OmSweetOhm https://goo.gl/5Ue3ka ■ Southern Style DIY https://goo.gl/r5PL2c ■ James Allen ■ Kyle C ■ Legacy Creations https://goo.gl/LZVeMV ■ Joe Verstegen https://goo.gl/nyix5C