Re: EEVblog ??? Electronics Engineering Video Blog

Nov 24, 2010 2 Replies


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


:-) 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...

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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

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