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MenuDaniel Arroyo Tech Entrepreneur. CTO at Astroprint.com
Co-founder & CTO at 3D Printing software company, AstroPrint. Software engineer & Founder Institute graduate. Mobile and SAAS platforms. Former developer evangelist at Nokia. Mobile at Chiill.com.
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DA$1.67/min per minute(1)Mobile Application DevelopmentDaniel Arroyo • Málaga, SpainCreated 12 years ago in Technology / MobileDevelopment and design of mobile applications and cloud services.Daniel Arroyo Málaga, Spain(1)
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DA$1.67/min per minute(1)Transitioning From Employee to EntrepreneurDaniel Arroyo • Málaga, SpainCreated 12 years ago in Technology / MobileAdvice on how to take the leap of faith to build your dream company and leave that cushy but unsatisfactory job.Daniel Arroyo Málaga, Spain(1)
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DA$1.67/min per minute(1)3D PrintingDaniel Arroyo • Málaga, SpainCreated 12 years ago in Technology / OtherAdvice on the 3D Printing ecosystem, technology and possibilities.Daniel Arroyo Málaga, Spain(1)
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DA$1.67/min per minute(1)Website DevelopmentDaniel Arroyo • Málaga, SpainCreated 12 years ago in Technology / Software DevelopmentAdvice on how yo design and develop your website or web app. From choosing programming language and hosting environment to tips on ui design and SEO.Daniel Arroyo Málaga, Spain(1)
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DA$1.67/min per minute(1)From Idea to ProductDaniel Arroyo • Málaga, SpainCreated 11 years ago in Product & Design / Lean StartupOver the years, I have created and participated in the creation of multiple mobile and web products. The path to distill an abstract idea into a simple, useful product is not easy but extremely rewarding.Daniel Arroyo Málaga, Spain(1)
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Daniel was to the point, and provided exactly the information I needed. Highly recommended.
Source: Clarity David Mercier Dec 9, 2014Daniel has many excellent qualities to be a leader in his field: knowledge, confidence in his abilities, patience and good humour. He is an excellent resource to be able to draw upon for our project and a top guy to know. He has a full understanding of the technical details which may or may not have a direct effect on a project and is very well hooked in to the many R&D parts of the Nokia business.
Source: LinkedIn Nick Turner-Samuels Feb 3, 2013Daniel has a great technical expertise as well as a trained sense of project management.
He can grasp the context, see the big picture as well as pinpoint the detail.
It has been a great experience working together with him and looking forward for more cooperation.
Daniel is in the top echelon of his field. He is widely recognized for his deep architectural knowledge of Symbian and S60, and is a hot programmer as well. However, he also has a deep interest in, and good intuition for, the business side. Daniel communicates effectively with people ranging from the deepest technical experts to marketing managers. He is an invaluable partner for a product manager/business developer like myself.
Source: LinkedIn private private Feb 3, 2013Daniel was managing the technical and project relationship from Nokia and I was managing the technical and project relationship from Panasonic. There were many instances where we had to work together closely to resolve critical issues. I found Daniel to be very professional, knowledable and dedicated to resolving issues regardless of difficulty.
Source: LinkedIn Sudeesh Pingili Feb 3, 2013Daniel is a very sharp individual who has been instrumental to the success of a large number of projects involving a complex mix of hardware and software architecture, systems integration and technical management. Furthermore Daniel is a great communicator who can transfer his knowledge very clearly. I highly recommend him.
Source: LinkedIn Marc Menschenfreund Feb 3, 2013

If you have your CAD design done, you can get it printed in plastic first using inexpensive printers at 3DHubs for example. Do tweaks to the design and reprint. This can't cost more than $5 or so per print.
Once you're happy you can then send your design to shapeways or i.materialise to be printed in metal. These services will likely charge a fee $100 for a metal print.


It won't work on the iPad. Children are so into tablets and touch. They want to touch all screens!


I'm the CTO of https://3dagogo.com a marketplace of proven to print 3D designs.
We look at the two sides differently. There's not a single customer. In our case you have designers and purchasers ( sometimes the same person can be both ).
Cost and methods for acquiring designers are very different than those to attract purchasers.
I would clearly separate the sides and come up with separate cost structures.
In my opinion when you're looking at the marketplace from the purchaser perspective, the other side's acquisition costs can be seen as fixed marketing costs.


I recently went trough this with https://www.3dagogo.com and previously with http://www.artgonia.com
Find a channel that already carries one side and, find out if you can 'borrow' their content or access to people.
For example you can scrape yellow pages listings for car dealerships ( filling up the seller side ) and make posts of thier pages in your site on Craigslist (getting some buyers to know about you). Make sure your listings have top notch SEO built-in and don't worry too much about the little traffic that Google brings initially, it'll grow.
Make it super easy to share the one action that sets you apart with their friends.
All the while start marketing heavily to the sellers side. Do manual, non scalable work here, it doesn't matter at this point. Promise that you'd post to Craigslist for then, run Facebook ads of the pages in your marketplace, etc. Baby this new customers, learn from them, become their friend.
In my experience it's always easier to find 'brave' sellers willing to try something new. If your product is truly differentiated and you provide the necessary social tools and feedback loops, users will slowly find he site, have great experiences and start talking to about them with their friends and one day... You get critical mass and ball stars rolling on its own.
Good luck. Give me a call if you'd like to brainstorm more.


PHP would probably give you the biggest pool of available developers which will help keep the cost down. If you pair that with a modern compiled framework like phalconphp.com and stay with php version 5.5 with its opcode and memory optimizations, you'll be able to run your site in low end ec2 instances for a long time.


I recently shared this link in another related answer. I think it's relevant for your question too. Here it goes:


I would do 301 redirects for the unwanted urls for a couple of months and then 404 then. This would require more work but it'll give you less impact in search ranking and traffic.
404 is too bad for SEO but it might impact your traffic.


I have always used the guidance provided by the Founder Institute. They "open sourced" thier advisor agreement. Don't forget to read the addendum for explanations on % depending on involvement and company stage.
Check it out http://fi.co/contents/206


I wrote a couple of articles when I was going through it for the first time:
http://www.danielarroyo.net/2011/08/can-corporate-employees-become-entrepreneurs/
http://www.danielarroyo.net/2011/09/how-to-transition-from-employee-to-entrepreneur/
I hope you enjoy them. I can talk in length about this as it's still relatively fresh in my mind.


I'm going to talk from the perspective of a founder, not a lawyer. I also live in California and your state laws might defer.
I think if you are putting hours into your startup, you are also an 'employee' in addition to a founder.
Your board (ie. your cofounders) can decide at any time that you are not pulling your weight in the project and don't want you involved. Thus you can also be 'fired'.
In most vesting agreements there's a right to repurchase unvested shares that the company has. This is essentially how vesting works. The company decides that they don't want you anymore and they have the right to repurchase from you all the unvested shares at the price they were given to you initially ( not current market price ). You can only keep the vested portion.
I hope this helps
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