[MUSIC] So in this video we will speak to Lauren Slovic who's the design evangelist at Shapeways. And Shapeways, as you have seen earlier in the course with Professor is a platform that allows you to upload designs, and have them shipped to you, or others. You can set up your own shop on Shapeways as well, or just print one design that you want to get printed. In this video, she will share some examples of how Shapeways enables individuals and entrepreneurs to produce on demand. So she'll talk about some case studies with Kickstarter, which is a crowdfunding platform. And how somebody would create a campaign on Kickstarter and use Shapeways as sort of the back end fulfillment platform without needing to actually have control or coordination issues with the actual production process. You create an idea, you get support for it, community support or broad-based support on platforms such as Kickstarter or IndieGoGo, and then you find somebody who fulfills the making of that product, leveraging 3D printing. And that's where Shapeways provides an interesting example of how your ideas can turn to objects without expensive investments in, perhaps, some manufacturing facilities. So join us in our chat with Lauren. >> [SOUND] There's a couple examples I can think of. Probably the first success story we had was a designer named Joshua Harker who designed these beautiful filigree skulls, and I believe he did them as a fundraiser project. And it became a wild success, and he ended up getting thousands of orders for these objects that he probably wouldn't have been able to fulfill all the orders on his own. But we fulfilled all I think something like 4,000 of them all on time, and he was able to do a huge amount of fundraising. And that was outside of Kickstarter, I think it was his own fundraising platform. We've definitely done successful partnerships with Kickstarter projects. Coolest Cooler is another one, one of their rewards for donors was a miniature keychain version of the product that they were actually developing, and that was a huge success as well. Another group is Hero Forge. So they started off as a Kickstarter,. They use our service API to create custom table top gaming avatars, so you can be an elf, or a dwarf, or a witch, or whatever, and you can print on some of different materials. So they're are actually able to run their entire business as proposed on Kickstarter through our supply chain and our manufacturing. Yeah. That's a great question. We are a global company. We started in Europe, our headquarters moved to New York, but we ship everywhere around the world. Our distribution centers are capable of shipping anywhere. And we have a marketplace that can ship anywhere around the world. So whether you use our marketplace on shapeways.com, or you use our API, we essentially support global entrepreneurship from the start, so it's really no question. You can start an account, start a shop today, and have a global audience for your product almost immediately. [MUSIC] [SOUND]