Chapter 1: A brief history of consumer products

• Maker Movement

• European Patent Office

• CircleUp

• IndieGogo

• Kickstarter

• Etsy

• Savannah College of Art and Design

Chapter 2: Where do great ideas come from?

• Nespresso

• FitBit

• Method

• Playskool

• SimpliSafe

• Harvard Business School

• NASA

Chapter 3: educating the new entrepreneur

• Small Business Administration

• Framebridge

• MIT

• LinkedIn

• G20 Ventures

• Food Safety Lab

Chapter 4: Tapping established expertise Sources

• Maker Media

• Maker Faire

• Meetup

• Creative Fuel Studio

• Southeast Makers Alliance

• West Elm

• Catskill Mill

• Double Union

• Fort Houston

• Beam & Anchor

• Pony Ride

• The Empowerment Plan

• Treadwing

• Bunker Labs

• Hackerspaces

• Brightmoor Maker Space

• Techstars

• Y Combinator

• Embarc Collective Accelerator

• Casper

• Warby Parker

• SimpliSafe

• HAX

• Sculpteo

• Seed Accelerator Rankings

• Highway 1

• Indiegogo

• b8ta

• Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program

• Sur La Table

Chapter 5: market research

• Google Trends

• Larabar

• Small Business Administration

• Federal Government

• User Testing

• Survey Monkey

• Typeform

• Meetup

• American Heart Association

Chapter 6: design and documentation

• Analogue Studio

• Behance

• 99 Designs

• Guru

• Zurb

• Upwork

• Continuum

• Autodesk

• National Instruments

• Sketchup

• Rhinoceros

• Tinkercad

• Balsamiq

• OmniGraffle

• Invision

• Axure

Chapter 7: intellectual property

• Copyright.gov

• US Patent & Trademark Office

• US International Trade Commission

• Shopify

• Bunch o Balloons

• “Invalidated: The Shredding of the U.S. Patent System”

• Ruppert Garden Tools

Chapter 8: Prototyping

• IDEO

• Protolabs

• Ponoko

• Dragon Innovation

• Shapeways

• Anthropologie

• Home Shopping Network

Chapter 9: industry Access and exposure

• South by Southwest

• Burt’s Bees

• MITX

• International Home and Housewares Shows

• Make48

• Quirky

• HSN

• Zulily

• QVC

• REI

Chapter 10: funding

• Kabbage

• NOWAccount

• Y Combinator

• Embarc Collective Accelerator

• Bolt

• HAX

• Highway 1

• Hardware Club

• MassChallenge

• Circle Up

• Sweetriot

• Forerunner Ventures

• Trinity Ventures

• Lerer Ventures

• Silas Capital

• General Catalyst

• NEA

• Built by Girls

• Maveron Venture Capital

• Beechwood Capital

• XFactor Ventures

• Female Founders Fund

• The Helm

• SheEO

• Backstage Capital

• Upfront Ventures

• Nourish

• Credit Signal

• Nav Credit Monitoring

• Credit

• Credit Safe

• Scorely

• Fundera

• Small Business Administration

• Sundance Catalog

• Orvis

• Shape

• Monarq Incubator

• Serena Ventures

• First Step Fund

• Portfolia

• Project Entrepreneur

Chapter 11: manufacturing

• Maker’s Row

• Dragon Innovation

• Timroon

• Heatact

Chapter 12: packaging

• Gilt Groupe

• L’eggs

• Method

• Bona

• Lara Bar

• Packable

• Packaging World

• Assemblies United

Chapter 13: Marketing

• TaskRabbit

• Carol’s Daughter

• Squatty Potty

• Mobi Games

• Rakuten LinkShare

• ShareASale

Chapter 14: retail distribution

• SupplyKick

• Dorel Juvenile

• Chicago Housewares

• Inventors Corner

• New York Now

• Atlanta Gift

• Toy Fair

• National Hardware Show

• Outdoor Retailer

• Natural Products EXPO

• Consumer Electronics Show

• Ace Hardware Convention

• Global Pet Expo

• SuperZoo

• National Stationery Show

• BeautyCon Festival

• Las Vegas Gift Show

• ABC Kids Expo

• Chicago International Home + Housewares

• Maker Faire NY

• Specialty Food Association Fancy Foods

• International Travel Goods Show

• Joor

• RangeMe

• Etsy Wholesale

• Faire (Indigo Fair)

• Hubba

• Wholesale in a Box

• Fitzroy Toys

Chapter 15: direct to consumer (DTC)

• Casper

• Warby Parker

• Bonobos

• Glossier

• Harry’s

• Dollar Shave Club

• PillPack

• AllBirds

• The Honest Company

• CB Insights

• REI

• Fry’s Electronics

• Micro Center

Chapter 16: logistics

• Shipwire

• ShipStation

• Barrett Distribution

• Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA)

• Gilt Groupe

• Shapiro Freight Forwarding

• Quickloader

• Ace

• Toolbarn

• Hyperakt

Chapter 17: e-commerce and Payments

• Shopify

• Big Commerce

• WooCommerce

• Wix

• Squarespace

• How We Make Stuff Now

• Rue La La

• Magento

• Yo!Kart

• Stripe

• Square

• Braintree

Chapter 18: customer experience

• Formfire Glassworks

• Peet’s Coffee & Tea

• Zendesk

• Salesforce

• Hubspot

• Marketo

• Delighted

• Medallia

• Tweetdeck

• Hootsuite

• Talkdesk

• Grasshopper

Chapter 19: financial management

Chapter 20: inventory management

• Lifetime Brands

• Fat Brain Toys

• Melissa and Doug

• Guthy Renker

• Telebrands

• All Star Products Group

• Honest Company

• Goop

• International Business Trainers

• Department of Commerce International Trade Administration

• Export Assistance Centers

• Lively

• Storefront

• WS Development

• The Current

• B8ta

• Casper

• The Arrivals

• Warby Parker

• M. Gemi

• Allbirds

• Rent the Runway

• MM La Fleur

• Miansai

• Nic + Zoe

• Outdoor Voices

• Everlane

• Bonobos

• Paper Source

• Cost Plus

Chapter 21: growing into the future

• Oxygen