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Rah_H:
This post is essentially about asking for help or advice from the eevblog community. First, let me explain my situation.

I posted on the eevblog forum some time ago for advice from the veterans, regarding a tech startup that I wanted to pursue (cant believe its been 1.5 years). I did get a lot of good suggestions and advice from the veterans. Later, I approached a government funded Venture Capital for seed stage support. I figured out the hard way that the investors are just looking at only the flashy stuffs. Projects of water from air gets buried under money but I cant get any support for my automation and lab equipment R&D (apparently I am not energetic enough). So anyway, I went ahead by myself with some money I borrowed from my family. I launched my business website, wrote all the T&C, made all the branding logo and marketing stuffs as much as I can. I am ready to hit the market with my products but I am in requirement of funding. At this point, I am considering sharing my products for licensed manufacturing. Online shops seems to be the best place for this product. But I am not sure how to contact or approach them. So, the question for the forum is,

     i. how can I make contacts with these online shops like element14, sparkfun or others?
     ii. do any one knows of any business entity or anyone who are willing to licensed produce the devices
     iii. is there any tips or tricks i should know about

The product I am willing to licensed manufacture is called Terminus. It is a 12 in 1 digital signal/testbench generator for students, hobbyist, engineers and researchers. Product link https://arbiterelectro.com/product/terminus/. You can get all the info from the product page. Feel free to reach out to me at arbiter.electro@gmail.com. Any/all help and advice is welcome. Thank you in advance.

If this doesn't work, I might proceed with crowd funding. Unfortunately, crowd funding is banned in my country. So I will be back to disturb you all veterans, LOL. Wish me luck (this is ironic as I don’t believe in luck).

   Best of Regards
   Hasib Rahman

jonpaul:
very sorry but you have no realistic business model, or perhaps practical experience in business

90% of all start-ups fail in a few years

Finally international payment, shipping, customs and taxations are now costly and complex

Bon courage

Jon

tooki:
It looks like an interesting project, but some questions:
1. Does it actually exist, or is the website just showing what it’s planned to do once funded?
2. What distinguishes this from similar products already on the market, like the Analog Discovery?
3. Why on earth would you design it with an RS-232 port, which hasn’t been present on the vast majority of computers for a decade or two?!? On the one hand, that’s a huge turn off. On the other, it makes me (and potential distributors) question your judgement and pulse on the market. (Adding USB costs the same as or less than adding RS-232! I’ve added USB-to-UART chips to boards before, it’s really not difficult.)

pcprogrammer:
I have been out of the market for a long time, so no idea what people would like to see, but I do agree with tooki that RS-232 is old and definitely not something students will look for. To interface RS-232 with a microcontroller you also need a signal converter to get the TTL or CMOS levels, so instead use something like a CH340 USB to serial chip. Probably cheaper then a RS-232 level converter.

Easier to connect to a computer too.

nctnico:
Sorry, but I don't see this board as particulary usefull with the whole Arduino and Rpi ecosystems out there that are very succesful in the student & teaching realm.

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