
PANCAKEBOT BECOMES A PRODUCT
Maker Faire provided a market validation for
PancakeBot. People were asking Miguel when
he was going to do a Kickstarter and create a
product that they could buy. He recalls other
makers talking about creating a Kickstarter —
that was what you did with a successful prototype.
Yet he never got around to doing his own
Kickstarter, even though he kept thinking about it.
One day, he got a call from a new company
that sought to help inventors bring products
to market. The company’s CEO asked Miguel if
he’d be willing to license the PancakeBot to him.
“Living in Norway and knowing the market for
the product was the United ...