Re: EEVblog ??? Electronics Engineering Video Blog

- A
- Anders.Montonen
  
  Contact options for registered users
posted
13 years ago

Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:09 PM

Presentation: Sparkfun???s Nathan Seidle
> Sparkfun???s Nathan Seidle gave an excellent talk on Sparkfun???s history at > a Google conference. > > Nathan gives an insight into how he started a multi-million dollar > Electronics kit and component company, from his bedroom in 2003, through > to how he gave away $100,000 worth of goods as a customer bonus, in one > day in Dec 2009. And he covers many interesting and amusing stories in > between. I had to crank the sound right up for this one. 47 minutes.

They're doing another giveaway soon:

-a

- D
- Don McKenzie
  
  Contact options for registered users
Vote on answer
posted
13 years ago

Wed, Nov 24, 2010 10:50 PM

:-) I forgot to mention, their free day last year ended up being 1 hour and 44 minutes to give away the $100K.

And Next year: We are going to be giving away $150,000 to users and potentially $30,000 to charity. Our Goal: Get as many new people introduced to SparkFun as possible.

Cheers Don...

=================

--
Don McKenzie

Site Map:            http://www.dontronics.com/sitemap
E-Mail Contact Page: http://www.dontronics.com/email
Web Camera Page:     http://www.dontronics.com/webcam
No More Damn Spam:   http://www.dontronics.com/spam

USB Isolator 1000VDC For Protecting Your PC OR Laptop
http://www.dontronics-shop.com/usb-iso-low-full-speed-usb-isolator.html

These products will reduce in price by 5% every month:
http://www.dontronics-shop.com/minus-5-every-month.html

- A
- Anders.Montonen
  
  Contact options for registered users
Vote on answer
posted
13 years ago

Fri, Nov 26, 2010 1:29 PM

But if you go full-time, what will you rant about when you no longer have the pleasure of interacting with marketing, managers, suppliers and so forth?

-a