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3 Leather Projects You Can Make With Glowforge
Ready to move past the limitations of blade cutters into the power of lasers? Glowforge Craft Lasers open up a whole new world making! Glowforge Spark and Glowforge Aura both use a powerful beam of light to bring your ...
Glowforge Completed its Series A with an Investor we Never Met
We’ve just raised a $9M Series A financing round. Leading the round was Brad Feld from Foundry group, which puts an unusual burden on me as CEO: following in the footsteps of my friends and role models Rand and Danielle,...
We’re adding a warranty
One of our most common requests from customers is that they would like us to add a standard warranty. OK! We’re going to do it. While this isn’t the full legal warranty (coming soon, from our friendly neighborhood lawyer...
Anatomy of a 5 Million Dollar Week
It’s been a wild ride in the last seven days – since we launched Glowforge at Makerfaire, we’ve had more than $5M in pre-orders. To put that in perspective, the most-backed 3D printer in history (as best we can tell) ra...
Glowforge Owner Marissa: From Pillows to Prolific Profits
It’s fall y’all and for many Glowforge Owners, it’s the start of the busy holiday season. You see, with Glowforge, the small biz owners among us – from Saturday side hustlers to full-time makers – are firing up their 3D ...
Glowforge Owner Bruce: Realtor by Day, Side Hustle by Night
Yesterday you met Marissa, who went from passively making pillows to proactively producing prolific profits with Glowforge. Today, is all about another breed of small business: the side hustlers. The weekend warriors. T...
Glowforge Owner Nikita: Achieving the American Dream
If you’ve been following along with us this week, we’ve been spotlighting Glowforge Owners (you can get caught up on Marissa here and Bruce here) who run their own businesses, to celebrate the unofficial kickoff to the h...
Five Simple Tips to Take Photos That Look as Great as the Real Thing
There’s nothing more exciting than bringing your idea to life – except for maybe doing it at the push of a button! Here at Glowforge, we all get giddy watching #glowforge on Instagram populate with pictures of new amazin...