Business License Hell
Nobody ever said selling Floppy Emus to the public would be easy, but for an operation that’s barely one step above an eBay garage sale, the amount of legal hoops I’ve had to jump through is ridiculous. How did it…
Category Business
The business side of selling electronics hardware.
How to Manufacture a Widget
So you’ve designed an electronic gizmo, it works nicely, and the public wants to buy it. You’ve built one, or ten, or a hundred by hand until your soldering iron wore out, and now you’re ready to have the gizmo…
Taking Care of Business
Today was time for some especially gruesome business-related work. I knew I was overdue for collecting California state sales taxes on Floppy Emu sales, and my recent investigations into having an electronics assembler build the boards brought some new urgency…
Outsourced PCB Assembly and Testing
Help request! If any reader has experience taking a hobby-scale electronics project to an outside vendor for assembly, I’d love to hear from you. I’ve been talking with the fab in China that makes the Floppy Emu PCBs, and they…
Supply Chain Snafu
Where and how do you find the parts needed to build your hardware? Selling Floppy Emu on a small scale has introduced me to the difficulties of managing a supply chain, and I’ve discovered it’s more difficult than it looks.…
International Shipping Meltdown
US Post Office, what are you doing to me? The USPS Click-n-Ship service has always been cumbersome, but it’s the only practical way to mail packages outside the USA via First Class Mail, which is the only way to send…
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