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"  During the 2013 Breakthrough Awards conference panels, three hardware innovators answered questions on the booming DIY network, the future of the innovation economy, and why small startups are vital to the future of American manufacturing. Moderated by longtime tech journalist Joel Johnson, here are the five best quotes and conversations from the panel. &amp;quot;We started when my co-founder John Ulmen built a [Boosted Board] because he wanted one. It was only because people were chasing us and saying &amp;#039;hey can I get one of those&amp;#039; we thought that maybe we should start building these. They were physically chasing us, which is a great feeling when you&amp;#039;re used to tinkering. I grew up building stuff for fun and that&amp;#039;s where you find the most creative and curious people who come up with interesting solutions to problems.&amp;quot; - Sanjay Dastoor, co-founder of Boosted Inc. &amp;quot;I think a lot of companies get into trouble when they treat Kickstarter as a way to fund their idea to get it off a ground. We treated it as advertising, as a way to test the level of interest in what we&amp;#039;d built.&amp;quot; Mike Estee, co-founder of Other Machine Co. &amp;quot;Right now, there are conferences on innovation. There are offices at the state and federal level about driving national and local innovation. Our mission is in five or ten years is there won&amp;#039;t be conferences about innovation. There won&amp;#039;t be offices. Innovation won&amp;#039;t be a special thing. Back in the 80s, when desktop publishing came out, there were conferences about desktop publishing. There were magazines about desktop publishing. Desktop publishing was a term. I don&amp;#039;t remember seeing conferences lately about desktop publishing because everyone just does it. In five or ten years, I just want everyone to innovate. I want it to be a natural, everyday, normal thing that people engage in.&amp;quot; - Jim Newton, founder of TechShop &amp;quot;One of the things we&amp;#039;ve learned is that building ten of something is different than building a hundred, which is different than building a thousand in the hardware space. So I think building ten million phones in a weekend will fall under the purview of these big companies. It requires a lot of resources. It requires a lot of expertise and that&amp;#039;s not going to be solved by ground-level innovators, but those companies are less likely to build ten of something and try it out with their friends and try with people in their community. You&amp;#039;ll see a lot more locally innovative ideas. They may not follow traditional business models, but it still solves problems big companies won&amp;#039;t.&amp;quot; - Sanjay Dastoor &amp;quot;There is this problem with kids graduating high school that don&amp;#039;t have enough technical skills to be able to work in this high tech economy that we&amp;#039;ve made, and we&amp;#039;ve been farming out our manufacturing expertise for so long that we&amp;#039;ve forgotten that it&amp;#039;s actually really important to make things at a national level. I think that the reason you&amp;#039;ve seen the rise of the maker movement accelerate so fast is that there is this huge joy in creating something beautiful and unique.&amp;quot; - Mike Estee "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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