Woodsy, a California fast-furniture startup manufacturing solid wood furniture, has developed a desk that can be produced locally in an hour and be assembled by the customer in less than 5 minutes.
A write-able birch surface furniture idea from students in a crammed dorm room has won backing from Mark Cuban and launched a Kickstarter funding campaign.
The new Woodieful Chair is designed to be functional in adaptability, sustainable in quality and serves to inspire multiple uses to fit a person’s lifestyle. And the furniture project has reached its Kickstarter goal.
A portable stand up desk of Baltic birch and bamboo has brought a business boost to Rob's Custom Cabinetry in Superior, Wisconsin. Launched using two Kickstarter fundraising campaigns, the first netted $118,000 and allowed the two to buy a Laguna CNC router. The StandStand desk has generated $300,000 in added revenue for the cabinetry shop.
Glowforge, a 3D laser cutter and etcher for wood, metal, leather and other material, received more than $28 million in pre-orders for its cutter and etcher with built in scanner. Presentation of its wood-cutting product potential spurred sales.
It's an indefinable quality, and its origins are not always predictable - but we can say innovation thrives in environments that don't thwart or stifle it. So while entrepreneurs may have an edge in originating an idea - no one to quash a it - they may also suffer long odds against success, bowing to constraints on resources.