SF Hardware Startup Meetup July 25 - Sponsored by Dragon Innovation at Pier 3

Hey Guys,

It's time for another Hardware Startup Meetup! This time we'll be hosting the event at Bloomberg Beta (http://www.bloombergbeta.com/), an early stage VC fund from Bloomberg LP. The space is located at Pier 3 on the Embarcadero in San Francisco.

Our sponsor this month is Dragon Innovation (http://www.dragoninnovation.com/) who work with hardware startups to bring them from prototype to high volume production. They're the folks behind some of the best known hardware startups in the scene: Makerbot, Pebble, Romotive, Sifteo, Orbotix and many more. We're excited to have them come in to tell us all about how they do their thing!

Details:

Space is tight (and so is security), so we'll need you to sign-up quick and if you don't get a spot we won't be able to have anyone crash. So be mindful of that. Also, when you sign-up there's a question asking for your first/last name + organization - make sure to fill that out because they need to know to let you in.

If you WANT TO DEMO (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvKBkB2iZuisdGRKMFF4TGo5bUNXVGI5Wkl0T1dZU3c#gid=22) - then we really want you! Use that link to put your name on the spreadsheet, and you're guaranteed a spot. Also, if you've already presented your project a bunch of times, we'd prefer you hold off until you have an update before you do a demo - so we can get new people doing pitches.

Schedule:

6pm - Door's Open, and we have beer and pizza

6:30pm - Pitches Start

7:15pm - Wrap up the Pitches, now more

9pm - We kick you out ;-)

Announcements:

Here's some other cool stuff going on in the Bay Area Hardware Scene:

Bay Area Modular Electronics Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Modular-Electronics-Meetup/) - Our own Nahid Alam started this group, and I'm excited to check it out! SF Internet of Things Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-Internet-of-Things-Meetup/) - If you can't get into our meetup - make sure to check out the SF IoT meetup on the 25th. They've got Hugo from ElectricImp coming out to talk connected devices. IEEE + Eric from Pebble (http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ce/meetings/meeting_details_7.htm) - Eric Migicovsky will be talking about the Pebble story on July 23rd in Mountain View. r/HWStartups (http://www.reddit.com/r/hwstartups/) - As always - if you're looking for the latest in hardware startup news - check out our Hardware Startups sub-Reddit! Let me know if there's anything I can help with, or if you want to help start something that's cool too!

• Nick