HubCast – Ponoko for Printing ;-)
Coming from a manufacturing background, and having an understanding of the pressures and imperatives facing manufacturing, I’ve long been excited by Ponoko’s attempts (more on ‘em here) to reinvent manufacturing. The other day I received a note from HubCast who’s seeking to do something similar for printing. According to their PR. HubCast: changes the way [...]
Making It. Real. Really. Ponoko Gets Exciting Press
It’s no secret that I have a soft spot for businesses that work with and in the “real world”. My background is in manufacturing and I have a penchant for businesses that take something traditional and put a new spin on it with the aid of smart technology. Ponoko firmly sits in this camp. Ponoko [...]
Start Ups – Your Customers Are Your World
The best thing about the move to closer relationships between businesses and their customers is the ability to disintermediate the myriad of middlemen that characterise traditional commerce. This interest isn’t purely intellectual – in one of my other lives I own and help run a business that (gasp) manufacturers real products in (bigger gasp) a [...]
