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| Nov 16, 2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, November 16 | THE HOTTEST CEO IN SILICON VALLEY
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Huang, 54, is the cofounder and CEO of semiconductor and software company Nvidia. The company’s “graphic ... |
| Nov 16, 2017 | TechShop’s Crystal City makerspace closes as company shuts down all locations | Industrious DIYers are lamenting today after TechShop announced it is closing makerspaces across the country. This includes its Arlington, Va., location in Crystal City.
As of Nov 15, 2017—TechShop, Inc. and US locations are closed. Making ... |
| Nov 16, 2017 | TechShop’s Crystal City makerspace closes as company shuts down all locations | Industrious DIYers are lamenting today after TechShop announced it is closing makerspaces across the country. This includes its Arlington, Va., location in Crystal City.
As of Nov 15, 2017—TechShop, Inc. and US locations are closed. Making ... |
| Nov 15, 2017 | TechShop shuts down all US locations, declares bankruptcy | A bit of sad news for the maker community today: TechShop is shutting down nationwide.
Founded in 2006, TechShop is (or, I guess, was) pretty much heaven for the adventurous do-it-yourself’er. Imagine a big building filled with everything f... |
| Oct 12, 2017 | 4 reasons why TechShop is coming to Brooklyn | TechShop Brooklyn officially opens at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park at the end of the month, making good on our five-year promise to move to NYC’s most creative borough. There are countless reasons why any business would conside... |
| Jul 5, 2017 | New Lab, Gimlet, TechShop all hiring right now | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight new and noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.New Lab is hiring for a member agent.
Home to man... |
| Feb 21, 2017 | This week’s emoji jobs report: ? ?? ?️ ?️ ?️ ?️ | On the Market is a new column where we highlight noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.Atlas Obscura is looking for an advertising associate.
The offbeat... |
| Dec 5, 2016 | With Station F, Paris will have the world’s biggest startup campus | Station F (formerly known as la Halle Freyssinet) is quite an ambitious project and is bound to change the face of the tech ecosystem in Paris. Financed by Xavier Niel and directed by Roxanne Varza, Station F is going to be the world’s bigg... |
| Oct 6, 2016 | TechShop will open a 15,000 square foot location in Brooklyn next year | After years in the works, it’s finally happening: TechShop is opening up a Brooklyn location, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. It should be officially announced later today.
For those unfamiliar with the chain: TechShop is something of a... |
| Jun 8, 2016 | TechShop Detroit Plans Programs to Introduce Kids to STEAM Careers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When Will Brick, TechShop Detroit’s manager, was young, he was the kind of kid who loved to tinker. He often rode his bike around town “looking for things to turn into other t... |
| Apr 22, 2016 | This weekend, join the world’s largest hackathon: NASA Space Apps Challenge | NASA’s Space Apps Challenge takes place April 23-24 across the planet. And for the first time ever, the D.C. region is going to be involved.
This year there will be events taking place simultaneously in 193 locations spanning 72 countries.... |
| Jan 5, 2016 | How frugal innovation can kickstart the global economy in 2016 | In late 2015 a Cambridge-based nonprofit released the Raspberry Pi Zero, a tiny £4 computer that was a whole £26 cheaper than the original 2012 model. The Zero is not only remarkable for its own sake – a computer so cheap it comes free with... |
| Oct 14, 2015 | TechShop, a makerspace for hardware tinkerers and startups, expands to Asia | We recently wrote about the ex-marine who builds artisanal mounts for connected homes. Now TechShop, the makerspace that gave him his start, has opened its first location in Asia — specifically, in Tokyo, Japan. And it’s partnered with Japa... |
| Aug 25, 2015 | The Maker And The Man: An Interview With DIY Artist Chris Hackett | Varun Nayar, Tech Times 25 August 2015, 12:08 pm
"The idea is to take stuff out of the everyday world and demystify it in the making of it. That's incredibly powerful. It still enthralls me now and enthralls other people, too."
Ch... |
| Jul 19, 2015 | Enabling Makers To Create “The Next Big Thing” | Ray Almgren Contributor
Ray Almgren is the vice president of marketing and STEM evangelist at National Instruments.
Makers have long been known as hobbyists or tinkers. However, with increased access to professional-grade tools, the maker m... |
| Jun 11, 2015 | TechShop gives the Maker Movement a big boost | One of the first things you notice when you walk into TechShop’s 17,000-square-foot flagship fabrication studio in downtown San Francisco is the noise—the constant buzz and occasional bang of heavy machines biting and slicing into all manne... |
| Feb 2, 2015 | The Internet Applied To Things And The Third Industrial Revolution | John B. Rogers Contributor
John B. Rogers is chief executive and co-founder of Local Motors, which designs, builds and sells vehicles through the use of co-creation and microfactories in Chandler, Ariz., Knoxville, Tenn., and Las Vegas.
Edi... |
| Feb 2, 2015 | ‘100-year legacy’: Inside Paul Singh’s tech universe | In some ways, when Paul Singh settled back down in his old Virginia stomping grounds to launch Disruption Corporation, he was returning home to cultivate his garden.
But in the mind of this ambitious venture capitalist, that meant creating ... |
| Dec 3, 2014 | How Crystal City is becoming a tech hub | Angela Fox wants more millenials in Crystal City. And she knows how to get them.
On a chilly Thursday, the head of the Crystal City Business Improvement District enumerated all the yuppie activities that have popped up here along with hip r... |
| Oct 31, 2014 | Obama's Bet on Digital Age 'Millennials' | President Barack Obama sure knows the cool tools to connect with the “young folks,” as Peter Bjorn and John might say. He’s done an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit, a “Fireside Hangout,” and has a team actively managing his Twitter account ... |
| Sep 24, 2014 | TC Makers: TechShop, The SF Workshop Where Hardware Is Born | I get to meet some amazing people during our TC Makers shoots and TechShop CEO Mark Hatch is no exception. A former Green Beret, Hatch is the kind of guy who can build a PCB in the morning and run a million-dollar network of amazing technol... |
| Sep 16, 2014 | Intel to Host Internet of Things Workshop at TechShop in Austin | Intel will be hosting its Internet of Things Roadshow at Techshop in Austin on Saturday and Sunday. |
| Apr 28, 2014 | Detroit’s Canvas Watch Co. Wants Customers’ Design Input | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
What makes a 26-year-old Michigan native leave a job working for Tesla in Silicon Valley? Shaun Reinhold, founder of the Canvas Watch Company, wanted to apply what he’d learne... |
| Apr 18, 2014 | TechShop DC-Arlington Opens in Crystal City [Links] | TechShop DC-Arlington Opens in Crystal City [Tech Cocktail]: “TechShop, a membership-based facility that’s a do-it-yourself fabrication and prototyping studio, hackerspace, and learning center, announced today that it has officially opened ... |
| Feb 5, 2014 | ‘Learning shelter’ is raising $60K to teach maker skills to the SF homeless | A formerly homeless man who taught himself how to use laser cutters and CNC machines while living in a shelter now wants to give that kind of opportunity to others.
Marc Roth, who now runs his own laser-cutting business, launched an Indiego... |
| Feb 5, 2014 | ‘Learning shelter’ is raising $60K to teach maker skills to the SF homeless | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A formerly homeless man who taught himself how to... |
| Jan 24, 2014 | Nancy Pelosi: ‘I’m in awe’ of the maker movement | One wintery morning in 2011, Marc Roth awoke after a rough night in a homeless shelter in San Francisco. When he spotted a business card for TechShop in the shelter’s garbage bin, it seemed like a sign. Intrigued, he fished it out, and even... |
| Jan 24, 2014 | Nancy Pelosi: ‘I’m in awe’ of the maker movement | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
One wintery morning in 2011, Marc Roth awoke after a rough night in a homeless shelter in San Francisco. When he spotted a business car... |
| Jan 22, 2014 | Nancy Pelosi Meets New Breed of Maker-Entrepreneurs at TechShop | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The new wave of maker spaces around the country, and the startups they’re spawning, could help keep more U.S. jobs from shifting overseas, in the view of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, mi... |
| Oct 11, 2013 | TechShop Menlo Park seeking $3M to keep its doors open (using general solicitation) | TechShop Menlo Park is raising $3 million, and it isn’t afraid to say it.
The company filed a 506(c) with the SEC, which following the lift on the ban of general solicitation that permits startups to publicly (and legally) announce that the... |
| Oct 11, 2013 | TechShop Menlo Park seeking $3M to keep its doors open (using general solicitation) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
TechShop Menlo Park is raising $3 million, and it isn’t afraid to say it.
The company filed a 506(c) with the SEC, which following the ... |
| Oct 7, 2013 | Tech boom? Innovation drives Newcastle’s (slow) renewal | Australia’s mining boom can’t last forever, we’re told. We have to think further ahead, and move away from our reliance on a commodities-based economy to one based on innovation, technology and intellectual property. Well, in Newcastle they... |
| Sep 23, 2013 | Dylan’s Desk: JOBS Act will trigger growth in the innovation economy | The JOBS Act is a complicated, flawed piece of legislation.
It permits companies like Twitter to file pre-IPO paperwork secretly, giving them a chance to hide their accounting shenanigans from public view until just a few weeks before the a... |
| Sep 23, 2013 | Dylan’s Desk: JOBS Act will trigger growth in the innovation economy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The JOBS Act is a complicated, flawed piece of le... |
| May 19, 2013 | 3D printing poised on the edge of the mainstream (photo gallery) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
SAN MATEO, Calif. — 3D printers haven’t quite mad... |
| May 19, 2013 | The New “Handmade” | Amid grumblings of a “general fatigue” when it comes to software-based startups, a potentially transformative technology called 3D printing is poised to reach critical mass and mainstream awareness. Today’s news headlines about the technolo... |
| May 16, 2013 | Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement changed one man’s life | A Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and a Hollywood actor cross paths at a coffee shop in San Francisco’s Financial District.
You’d never know by appearance alone, but one of these men will sleep on the streets tonight.
Scott Glover and Marc... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | The Spotlight Will Be on Coworking at GCUC in Austin Next Week | Liz Elam, founder of Link Coworking in Austin, is getting ready for a huge conference next week.
But it’s not South by Southwest.
It’s the Global Coworking Unconference Conference, which takes place next Tuesday and Wednesday at the Austin ... |
| Dec 31, 2012 | In 2013, here’s why we’ll seriously consider alternatives to higher ed | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This is a guest post by Dale Stephens, founder of... |
| Nov 21, 2012 | The maker movement isn’t just for hackers anymore | “I’ve always done a certain amount of work with my hands, but my whole career was in software.”
Rich Pekelney (pictured above) is standing in front of one of many mammoth machines in San Francisco’s TechShop, a DIY paradise full of industri... |
| Oct 19, 2012 | A playground for geeks: Nike vet to open 10,000-square-foot maker space in Seattle | Calling all geeks, nerds, designers, makers and anyone else whose ever wanted to build something cool: MakerHaus is coming to Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood.
What’s MakerHaus? It’s kind of a geek paradise.
The 10,000-square-foot renovated i... |
| Sep 12, 2012 | TechShop CEO Mark Hatch: ‘We have destroyed entrepreneurship in this country’ | DETROIT — The past decade has seen a 93% drop in IPOs for sub-$50 million companies, Mark Hatch, CEO of do-it-yourself workshop TechShop, said today.
Speaking at a Techonomy Detroit session on the DIY economy and crowdfunding, he attributed... |
| Sep 12, 2012 | TechShop CEO Mark Hatch: ‘We have destroyed entrepreneurship in this country’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
DETROIT — The past decade has seen a 93% drop in ... |
| Aug 12, 2012 | Mini underwater sub raises $111K for amateur ocean exploration | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
OpenROV, a mini submarine developed in a Silicon ... |
| Aug 12, 2012 | Mini underwater sub raises $111K for amateur ocean exploration | OpenROV, a mini submarine developed in a Silicon Valley garage, has been hailed by the world’s media as the key to unlocking the earth’s last frontier.
No pressure, or anything.
The 20-something creators, David Lang (pictured, above) and Er... |
| May 30, 2012 | Ford Opens Motor City Innovation Exchange, A Showroom For Detroit Startups | The economic downturn of the last few years hit few cities as hard as Detroit. Still, the city has recently become somewhat of a startup hub in its own right and today Ford Global Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Compan... |
| May 24, 2012 | NextFab holds make-your-own 3D printer workshop, considers new revenue model [VIDEO] | If you’ve always wanted your very own 3D printer, but were hesitant to shell out the cash, maybe you’d rather pay to make one yourself.
For roughly the same $2,000 price tag as a retail version of the MendelMax 3D printer or just a bit more... |
| May 24, 2012 | DARPA invests $3.5M in TechShop to create pop-up weapons factories | A fundamental tenet of the modern maker movement is that everyone wants to build something. Especially the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Today DARPA took a break from funding next-generation weapons systems, advanced hypersonic... |
| May 20, 2012 | In Which The Maker Faire Restores Your Humble Correspondent’s Faith In Humanity | A life-size fire-breathing dragon. A fully robotic calliope band. A full-scale flight simulator built by teenagers. An entire herd of homemade R2-D2s. Electric cars, steampunk fashion, a robot petting zoo, a piano made of bananas, and a car... |
| May 4, 2012 | Ford encourages employees’ tinkering with free TechShop memberships | Some companies cater lunch on Fridays. Some throw in gym memberships or childcare or chair massages. Not Ford.
These guys are going big: They’re giving invention-focused employees TechShop memberships so they can tinker and make to their he... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | An alternative to incubators: the co-working space | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you’re a startup, you’ve probably considered j... |
| Mar 21, 2012 | Dylan’s Desk: When craftsmanship meets tech, magic happens | To predict the future, look at what really smart people are doing for fun.
That’s the advice from Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media and a proven futurist and coolhunter. O’Reilly started making manuals for Unix long before Unix was co... |
| Dec 21, 2011 | TechShop Mines Detroit’s Innate DIY Culture With New Location | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Corrected on 12/30/11, 1:25 p.m. See below.] Roughly 18 months after Menlo Park, CA-based TechShop announced it was partnering with Ford on a new location in metro Detroit, t... |
| Jul 28, 2011 | Ford, TechShop Partner on Detroit Location to Help Everyday Inventors Create, Build—and Commercialize—New Technologies | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
At first glance, the nondescript office park at 800 Republic Drive in Allen Park, MI, is notable only for being situated next to the Detroit Lions’ practice facility. That’s s... |
| Apr 27, 2011 | See You Tonight at “The Maker Revolution: From Workbench to Business” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When people talk about the barriers to entrepreneurship coming down, it doesn’t just apply to Internet startups anymore. These days, it’s getting easier and cheaper for any cr... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | Join Xconomy and TechShop on April 27 for “The Maker Revolution: From Workbench to Business” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There’s something amazing happening in garages, basement workshops, and hackerspaces across the country. Generations raised on mass consumption, the local mall, and ordering p... |
| Dec 16, 2010 | TechShop’s “Innovation Cathedral” Comes to San Francisco—Serving Craftsmen and Entrepreneurs on the Gold’s Gym Model | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As a Web journalist, I don’t need many tools. Give me a laptop, a smartphone, and an Internet connection, and I’m basically a roving newsroom. But don’t ask me to make anythin... |
| Nov 13, 2010 | TechShop Raises $1.65M in Equity Financing | TechShop, Inc., a Menlo Park, CA-based company that operates a chain of workshops that provide members with access to tools, equipment, and supportive people in order to facilitate the realization of their projects, has raised $1.65m in equ... |
| Jul 30, 2009 | With silly putty and sparkles, you can make a BioShock belt buckle | Well look at that, a BioShock belt buckle. And, if you’re handy with all sorts of machinery I’ve never heard of (read: TechShop), you can make your own.
The computer work isn’t so difficult: a little bit of PhotoShop, a little bit of Solidw... |