Margin For Error: The Story of Entrepreneurs, Investors and Platform Builders
Margin For Error: The Story of Entrepreneurs, Investors and Platform Builders
Podcast Description
Building an innovative company don’t come with safety nets. Margin For Error is a podcast series featuring unfiltered conversations with the people shaping the startup world — founders, investors, and platform leaders. Hosted by HelloAdvisr, each episode dives into what it's really like to build a company from the ground up — and the challenges and decisions being made behind closed doors - to drive innovation and disrupt the status quo. Tune in to get honest insights for anyone building something that matters.
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The podcast explores critical themes within the startup world, focusing on entrepreneurship, innovation, and the challenges of scaling a business. Episodes like 'Rethinking Fertility' discuss breaking stigmas in male reproductive health, while 'Mixing the Perfect Blend' dives into building brands in the beauty industry. With a commitment to authentic storytelling, episodes also tackle systemic issues and the personal journeys of founders.
The playbook for building a business doesn’t exist.
Margin for Error is where entrepreneurs, investors, and operators share what they’ve figured out along the way. Hosted by HelloAdvisr CEO, Ed Lee, each episode is a deep conversation with the people behind real companies, covering fundraising, growth strategy, product development, AI, pricing, PR, and the hard decisions that don’t come with a manual. Whether you’re raising your first round or scaling past product-market fit, this podcast gives you the insight and honesty you won’t find in a pitch deck.
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Michael Corr, founder and CEO of Duro, spent years designing circuits and manufacturing products before realizing the tools hardware teams relied on were stuck in the 1990s. While software teams were shipping faster than ever with cloud-native workflows and seamless collaboration, hardware engineers were drowning in disconnected spreadsheets, outdated desktop software, and six-month onboarding cycles. So he decided to change that.
Duro is a product lifecycle management platform built for modern hardware teams. Think of it as GitHub for hardware: centralizing CAD files, supply chain data, and manufacturing workflows into one connected system that teams can be running on in days, not months. With a recent ground-up rebuild designed to be AI-native from the start, Duro is pushing hardware engineering into a new era.From bootstrapping when no VC would invest in hardware, to navigating COVID supply chain chaos, to rebuilding the entire product from scratch, Michael shares the full journey of bringing a decades-old industry into the modern age.
Here’s what’s covered:
- Why hardware engineering tools are decades behind software and what’s finally changing
- How Duro acts as the “GitHub for hardware” with centralized data and revision control
- The real reason Michael bootstrapped for years (hint: it wasn’t by choice)
- Why the team rebuilt the entire product from scratch to be AI-native
- What COVID and tariffs exposed about supply chain fragility and how Duro helped teams adapt
If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to modernize an industry that hasn’t changed in decades, this is the conversation.
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