Invention & entrepreneurship
Lessons from turning a kitchen experiment into a real product, a manufacturing relationship, and a lasting food brand.
The founder's notebook
Product invention
How observations, experiments, prototyping, and manufacturing can turn a simple idea into a useful product.
Kickstarter
What launching Baking Steel through Kickstarter taught Andris about validating an idea and finding early believers.
Building a brand
The intersection of product quality, education, community, storytelling, and direct-to-consumer business.