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Laurent Eschenauer

Belgium

I'm a serial entrepreneur with experience on a variety of products and services (B2C, B2B, SaaS, Hardware). In the past 20 years I did a lot of things right but also many mistakes that I learned from. I'd be happy to share my knowledge and help you succeed at your next project.

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Launching and Managing a Successfull Kickstarter Campaign

As the CEO of Fleye, I've launched and succeeded at raising 300k€ on Kickstarter, twice our goal. We did this through careful planning and precise execution.

During this call, I can:
* Share my experience and provide key strategic advice on running a campaign and managing it afterward.
* Review your project page and launch strategy to help you improve it.
* Help you with a failing campaign, showing you some tricks and braistorming on ideas to help you get through it !

Hardware Startups: From Idea to Delivery

Hardware is hard. I know. I have been involved in launching and managing a hardware startup, building a complex consumer electronic product, setting up distributors, attending trade shows, etc... I've been through a lot of hoops and willing to share that experience with other entrepreneurs.

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What is the best best approach for dynamically setting the blink frequency of a multi-led arduino driven strob light?

It really depends on what use case you want to achieve. Will there be multiple devices controlled from a single laptop ? Do you want to remote control them ? Do you need to build a user Interface on your laptop or is command line ok ? Etc.

With respect to communication, you can simply go serial (via USB), which can be easily 'upgraded' to bluetooth using a Bluetooth serial module (search for HC-06), they are really easy to integrate with arduino.

As for the software side on the laptop, you can use pretty much anything as long as it can talk over the serial port. I personally enjoy Python for these kind of things.

Finally, you must decide on the 'protocol' you are going to use to communicate with your device. it would be simple strings that you parse, a custom binary protocol that you design, or you may want to use a serialization library that provides you with greater flexibility. I like using 'nanopb' in my arduino projects. It is a lightweight implementation of Google 'protobuffers'.

As I wrote, lots of design choices in there, feel free to plan a call if you want to discuss.

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Laurent was a coach @ StartUp Weekend Liege. He played a decisive role in improving the 5min pitch we had to do for the finals. He must have done a pretty good job because we won with BetterStreet.org Seriously, you know after 2 minutes that the guy has something special. Combining technical & soft skills is a pretty rare combination nowadays.

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