The Engineering Entrepreneur Podcast

Polish Entrepreneur and Investor in Africa – Marek Zmysłowski – Ep82 Marek is from Poland and started his career as an entrepreneur in Africa. He co-founded Jumia Travel – Africa’s Biggest Hotel Booking Portal listed on NYSE as part of Jumia Group and HotelOnline.co – a Travel Technology Company. After this he started his own travel company and got int some trouble with competitors when they made...

Classicbot Toys – Philip Lee– Ep81  Philip Lee is a self-taught toy designer from Hong Kong. He was an experienced advertising creative who always wanted to make his own toy. So, in December 2016 Philip started his own company  Playsometoys , and debuted his first toy Classicbot Classic.  The Classicbot looks like the old Macintosh computer from the 80’s, but with arms, legs and a face. His latest...

The Audio Injector Invention – Matt Flax – Ep80  Matt is an entrepreneur running his own company,  FlatMax Studios .   He has recently invented an Audio Injector product and is raising money on kickstarter.  We discussed the technology of soundcards.  Matt’s invention isolated the desired sound from the noise of the computer by use of magnetic fields, instead of using electrical signals (electrons...

Makeway, The Marble Wall Game – Elyasaf Shweka – Ep79  Elyasaf is an Industrial Designer and a self-taught Carpenter. He lives in Jerusalem, Israel and has his own small wood work shop. He is the creator the amazing Makeway marble wall game.   His family ran a construction company and Elyasaf worked there as a project manager. However, his passion was in design and creation.  He started working wi...

Don’t Wait too Long to Apply for your Patent– Devin Miller – Ep78   Devin is a patent attorney and the founder of Miller IP Law that focuses on startups and small businesses. He found a gap in the startup/small business area for a need in intellectual property (IP). When you work with Devin, he generally has 2 scenario’s his customer is in: Scenario 1: have an invention before you get to investors...

Automatic Ocean Cleaning Device, The Seabin Project – Pete Ceglinski – Ep77   Peter Ceglinski  is the CEO and Co-founder of the Seabin product and company. The Seabin is a floating trash can that skims the surface of the water. Peter’s background is he is trained as a product designer with experience in injection molding. The inspiration for his invention came from the thought: If we have trash ca...

  CADdesignhelp.com Top 5 Projects 2019 – Scott Tarcy – ep 76 Changing things up this week, no guest. Instead, I reviewed my 2019 and picked my top 5 most interesting and unique projects I worked on. In summary they are:   Candle Project 3D printed a mold to then make a silicone mold. A mold for a mold if you will Wax is poured into silicone mold Key lesson: make alignment keys too small Exercise...

Incredible invention: Control Your Stuff Just by Thinking About it– Ian Rowan– Ep75   Ian is the inventor of one of the world’s smallest EEG wearable devices, Nurio . Ian has deep interest in all thing’s technology, especially Artificial Intelligence and its implications for the future of health.    Nurio is a tiny electroencephalogram (EEG), a tracker that can record brain waves. It’s no bigger t...

How Inventors can Succeed with Ecommerce – Rick Watson – Ep74 Rick Watson is an eCommerce entrepreneur and operator based in New York City who, after spending the last 20 years in the industry, recently founded his own business , RMW Commerce Consulting ,where he helps companies launch new initiatives with strategic business advice.    In particular, he spends a lot of time focused on companies in...

Simulation Software – David Heiny – Ep73 David is Co-Founder and CEO of SimScale. SimScale is a web-based simulation platform bringing together CAE (computer aided engineering) functionality, content and people. Simulation is an engineering technique where a computer will approximate a situation, like the airflow through a heat exchanger or the load bearing ability of a bridge. These softwares are...

Trademarks, Everything You Need to Know – Suzi Hixon – Ep72   Suzi Hixon has been a trademark attorney and trademark creation strategist for 15 years. She has managed the trademark portfolio of a Fortune 100 company, as well as numerous small businesses and startups. She focuses on strong brand name creation ~ from both the legal and marketing perspective.   Suzi now runs her own company, helping...

Twelve way to make a Prototype with Xometry – Greg Paulsen– Ep71   Greg Paulsen is the Director of Application Engineering at Xometry. He is an expert in helping determine the best-fit manufacturing process for customer projects and discussing design-for-manufacturing for over 12 different manufacturing technologies from precision machining to 3D printing Xometry is a manufacturing marketplace tha...

  How to Patent an Invention – Alex Hobson – Ep70 Alex Hobson is founder and president of Invention To Patent Services .  He is also an inventor being listed on more than 20 U.S. patents.  He has more than 20 years of experience. I’ve had other patent agents on the show before, but Alex is a little different. Alex was first a mechanical engineer and actually worked at a same company that I worked...

Autodesk, AutoCAD, and Fusion 360 Engineer – Bryce Heventhal – Ep69 Bryce Heventhal is the Sr. Technical Marketing Manager for Fusion 360. He has 9+ years of CAD, FEA, and generative design experience, with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. When he is not designing, he is out rock climbing.   Bryce started his career as an Applications engineer for a Solidworks reseller. He said that 80% of cases...

3D Printing Advice from a Formlabs Engineer - Andrew Edman – Ep68 Andrew Edman is an Industry Manager for product design, engineering, and manufacturing at Formlabs . He previously owned his own design company where he met the founders of Formlabs early on. Andrew looks for use cases for 3D printing. One such example is at Ashley Home Furniture. He found uses such as using a 3D printed fixture tha...

The Wheelchair Mountain Bike – Bowhead Corp (Chris Bagg and Will Gill) – Ep67 23 years ago, Chris Bagg broke his back snow boarding. Chris was very into outdoor sports and wanted to continue his activities as a parapalegic. Chris built his own custom wheelchair first. He needed this because all the stock chairs were too small for his 6 foot 8 inch size. Next, he started working on his off-road whe...

The Wonder Wallet Invention – Alan Beckley– Ep66 Alan Beckley is an entrepreneur, inventor, and podcaster. His degree is in aerospace engineering but worked a lot of his career in project management. In 2012, he hit it big with an invention of his, the Wonder Wallet. Today he continues to invent but also but also focuses on helping other inventors to succeed with his website alanbeckley.com , whic...

Serial Inventor, Entrepreneur and Daymond John Business Partner – Mike Watts– Ep65 Mike Watts is a serial entrepreneur who has started 6 product-based companies totaling over $50million in total sales. Mike is currently serving as Founder and CEO of LoveHandle, who manufactures patented custom-printed smartphone accessories and is a partner of Daymond John from Shark Tank. Many listeners of this s...

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) – John Laslavic– Ep64 If you are an engineer at a mid to large company, you are well aware what PLM is. But if not, hopefully this episode will teach you a few things. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is how companies organize the process of creating and modifying products. Traditionally this applied to just the CAD data itself. This is important because if mul...

The Business of Bioscience – Susan Goebel – Ep63 Susan is what I call a Bioscience Entrepreneur. She went to college for Biology and her first job out of school involved creating displays in museums, but these aren’t your average displays. One display she worked on was the structure of the human heart, using an actual heart! She then worked for a while in the animal health industry. But this type...

From Aerospace Engineer to Entrepreneur– Amy Simpkins – Ep62 Amy Simpkins is a speaker, author, and thought leader in innovation and the CEO of renewable energy startup, muGrid Analytics. She's an MIT-trained aerospace engineer who caught the entrepreneurship bug and loves facilitating massive leaps forward for individuals and organizations.  She's recently published her book, Spiral: A Catalyst f...

Asset protection for entrepreneurs – Scott Smith – Ep61 This episode focuses on some important business aspects of being an engineering entrepreneur: things like asset protection, insurance, and tax strategies. Scott is the founder of Royal legal solutions. His company specializes in asset protection for entrepreneurs. This includes what insurance to get, how to best structure your business for ta...

Lean Manufacturing and Lean Startups – Jason Burt – Ep60 Jason Burt is the owner of Evolve Holdings, which is a consultancy that focuses on teaching and applying the principles of Lean Manufacturing. Lean Manufacturing started off as the Toyota production system and centers around a continuous improvement culture and taking waste out of the manufacturing process. The first half of our conversation...

From Gear Head to Group Head – Paresh Shaw– Ep59 Paresh is a mechanical engineer who founded Enginpreneur Academy, which is a course to transform engineers into innovators, entrepreneurs, and inspiring leaders. He also runs the nonobviouscompany.com , which is a training company that addresses the 6 biggest challenges companies face today, like disruption and innovation, believability crisis, and...

Finance your Inventions – Matt King– Ep58 One of the most important things to take care of in the invention process is figuring out how to pay for all the steps needed to get your product to market. Unless you have a trust fund or a high paying job, you will likely need help getting your product to market. It will take thousands (if not more) dollars to go from idea to final product. Costs will in...