Re:Ask HN: What is the single most important decision you to...
by schappim on Saturday October 15, 2016 @06:26PM
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Volunteering to be the VP of the computer society.
Met an awesome guy called Christian Kent who I build a Tsunami warning widget with.
This widget got picked up by the media which enabled me to get a Masters of Design Science degree (a degree for which I didn't have the marks to get into the undergrad version).
In that degree, I had excellent lecturers and we did things like strapping accelerometers (a big box at he time, think 4 iPhone 7+ stacked on top of each other) to mobile phones (this was all pre-iPhone). I thought my lecturers were nuts when they said that soon this big box strapped to this chunky cell phone would be built into the phone.
This was also where I first met the Arduino. At the time Arduino didn't have any international distributors and it was really hard for my lecturers to buy them.
As I always worked during university, mine of my lecturers said: "Marcus, you're entrepreneurial, you should sell them in Australia." So to keep him happy I did. We were Arduino's first reseller and this one product, snowballed into nearly 18,000+ products and a multimillion dollar ecommerce company (http://littlebirdelectronics.com)
Met an awesome guy called Christian Kent who I build a Tsunami warning widget with.
This widget got picked up by the media which enabled me to get a Masters of Design Science degree (a degree for which I didn't have the marks to get into the undergrad version).
In that degree, I had excellent lecturers and we did things like strapping accelerometers (a big box at he time, think 4 iPhone 7+ stacked on top of each other) to mobile phones (this was all pre-iPhone). I thought my lecturers were nuts when they said that soon this big box strapped to this chunky cell phone would be built into the phone.
This was also where I first met the Arduino. At the time Arduino didn't have any international distributors and it was really hard for my lecturers to buy them.
As I always worked during university, mine of my lecturers said: "Marcus, you're entrepreneurial, you should sell them in Australia." So to keep him happy I did. We were Arduino's first reseller and this one product, snowballed into nearly 18,000+ products and a multimillion dollar ecommerce company (http://littlebirdelectronics.com)