Podcast appearances and mentions of mihir shah

Send us a textIn this episode, Aaron Moncur interviews Mihir Shah, an engineer-turned-entrepreneur who shares insights from his diverse career spanning Tesla, Inspect AR, and now Tomai Engineering. Mihir discusses his journey through engineering, startup growth, investment strategies, and the importance of first principles thinking.Main Topics:Engineering career pathFirst principles thinking in businessDesign for manufacturability (DFM)Startup and acquisition experiencesHardware FYI newsletterInvestment strategies with Shaw VenturesAbout the guest: Mihir Shah is an engineer and entrepreneur with a diverse background in hardware design, startup leadership, and industrial investment. He holds electrical engineering degrees from Santa Clara University and the University of Pennsylvania. His early work included roles at Tesla and Axon. In 2018, he co-founded inspectAR, an AR tool for PCB debugging, acquired by Cadence in 2020.He currently serves as President of TOMI Engineering, a CNC machining and assembly company serving the aerospace, defense, and medical industries, where he drives growth through investments in talent and technology. Mihir is also a Principal at Shah Capital Ventures, a family investment firm with holdings in industrial businesses like Summit Interconnect and Royal Circuits.Additionally, he co-founded Hardware FYI, a growing platform with over 12,000 subscribers that supports hardware engineers through resources like newsletters, job boards, and interview guides. His broad expertise makes him well-suited to speak on engineering leadership, startups, and the future of hardware.Links:Mihir Shah - LinkedInTOMI Engineering WebsiteHardware FYI Website 

With fewer incisions and faster recovery, single port robotic surgery is changing the game—hear from the urologic surgeons leading the charge. This episode of BackTable Urology features an insightful discussion of the transformative impact of single port robotic surgery with Dr. Richard Link, Dr. Michael Stifelman and guest host Dr. Mihir Shah. --- SYNPOSIS This episode explores the benefits of single port (SP) robotic surgery, highlighting improved access, greater efficiency, and shorter patient recovery times. The doctors discuss the evolution of single port technology and the challenges that remain. They also share practical tips around case selection, building community support, and tracking outcomes to enhance efficacy. Whether you're new to SP or a seasoned surgeon, this episode offers valuable insights on how to refine your surgical practice. --- TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Introduction04:18 - Early Adoption06:50 - Commitment and Learning Curve15:45 - Innovations and Best Practices19:10 - The Magic of Single Port Access29:29 - Practical Tips and Instrumentation32:14 - Instrument Spread and Force Bipolar34:25 - Benefits of Single-Port Surgery35:57 - Challenges and Cognitive Load in SP Surgery42:55 - Adoption and Resistance to SP Technology50:52 - Final Thoughts

Are you a 2025 Urology Match applicant or a residency program faculty member? In this week's episode of the BackTable Urology podcast, guests Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Dr. Lindsay Hampson provide guidance on navigating urology residency interviews. Their discussion offers insights from a residency leadership, department faculty, and medical student's point of view with host Yash Shah. --- SYNPOSIS The episode covers tips for both virtual and in-person interviews, strategies for conversational engagement, and advice for how applicants should evaluate programs. They further detail aligning personal values with program culture, describing past challenges, and lowering interview anxiety through effective practice. The conversation offers applicants invaluable preparation tips to approach the interview process with confidence and a positive attitude. --- TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Introduction 02:32 - Virtual vs. In-Person Interviews 07:02 - Preparing for Residency Interviews: Tips and Strategies 17:29 - The Role of Research 20:43 - Pivoting to Leadership and Advocacy 22:01 - Behavioral Questions: Tips and Examples 26:22 - Discussing Difficult Subjects 28:26 - Choosing the Right Residency Program 33:10 - Post-Interview Communication 36:24 - Final Advice

This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.It's the 16th of July and here are today's headlines.Four army personnel including a Major-rank officer succumbed to their injuries after an encounter on Monday night in Doda district's Desa forests in Jammu and Kashmir. As per sources, firing shots were heard in between Uddan Bagi and Dheri Goth at Dessa district of Doda at around 7.45 pm. The encounter started after militants hiding inside the forests suddenly opened fire on a security forces party, which was carrying out searches in the area. The security forces retaliated and the exchange of fire between two sides continued for nearly half an hour. Since then, there has been no firing from the militants' side.The Ahmednagar District Hospital in Maharashtra has certified that controversial probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar was suffering from depression with myopic degeneration in both eyes.Dr Sanjay Ghogare, Ahmednagar District Civil Surgeon, told The Indian Express that a copy of the report certifying 51 per cent disability was submitted to the District Collector. Questions had been raised about Khedkar's ‘disabilities' following a controversy over her conduct, which led to her being transferred from Pune to Washim. Khedkar shot into the limelight over her alleged demands for a separate office, official car and the unauthorised use of a beacon on her private car – all facilities she was not entitled to have.Mihir Shah, son of a Shiv Sena leader Rajesh Shah arrested for running over a 45-year-old woman in Worli, was produced before court again today and remanded in judicial custody till July 30. Mihir was traced in Virar and arrested on July 9 after the police received information on his location. Meanwhile, the IMD had sounded an orange alert in Mumbai and Thane districts for today after heavy rainfall lashed the city on Monday.Justices N Kotiswar Singh and R Mahadevan were elevated as judges of the Supreme Court today, announced Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on X. Justice Singh's elevation marks the first representation from Manipur in the Supreme Court. He was initially appointed a judge of the Gauhati High Court in 2011. Meanwhile, Justice Mahadevan is at present the acting chief justice of the Madras High Court. Once they take oath, the Supreme Court will regain its sanction strength of 34.Police fired tear gas and charged with batons during violent clashes between a pro-government student body and student protesters overnight, leaving dozens injured at a public university outside Bangladesh's capital, authorities and students said today. The violence spread early Tuesday at JahangirNagar University outside Dhaka, where protesters demanded an end to a quota reserved for family members of veterans who fought in Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971, allowing them to take up 30% of governmental jobs. While job opportunities have expanded in Bangladesh's private sector, many find government jobs stable and lucrative.This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.

his is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.It's the 10th of July and here are today's headlines.Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held a delegation-level meeting with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, according to news agency ANI. He will also meet the President of Austria, Alexander Van der Bellen, and hold a high-level business meeting in the country. He arrived in Vienna on Tuesday from Moscow for a one-day visit to the country. This visit, the first by an Indian prime minister in over 40 years since Indira Gandhi in 1983, aims to explore ways to further deepen bilateral relations and enhance cooperation on various geopolitical challenges.The Mumbai police investigating the BMW hit-and-run case said today that the family members of accused Mihir Shah, including his mother and sisters, escaped after the accident on Sunday. According to the police, they were scared of being attacked by a mob and also of being interrogated by them. On Tuesday, the Crime Branch arrested Mihir Shah and detained his mother Meena, his sisters Pooja and Kinjal, and a friend from a resort in Murbad in Thane. Meanwhile, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde removed his father Rajesh Shah from the post of deputy leader of the Shiv Sena's Palghar unit.Opposing the Enforcement Directorate's plea to cancel the bail granted to him in the excise policy case, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal informed the Delhi High Court that the agency had implicated him in a “false concocted story” and his arrest was “absolutely illegal”. The submission was made in the Aam Aadmi Party convener's reply filed in the ED's plea seeking cancellation of bail granted to him by a trial court on June 20. A single-judge bench today listed the matter on 15th of July, granting the ED time to respond to Kejriwal's reply.The Supreme Court today held that Muslim women can claim maintenance from their divorced husbands under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973. The Supreme Court was hearing an appeal by Mohd. Abdul Samad, who had been ordered to pay maintenance of Rs 20,000 to his ex-wife by a family court in Telangana. The woman had moved the family court under Section 125 of CrPC stating that Samad had given her triple talaq. He appealed to the high court which, while disposing of it on December 13, 2023, said “that several questions are raised which need to be adjudicated” but “directed the petitioner to pay 10,000/- as interim maintenance”.Pakistan has legally authorised its army-run spy agency to tap telephone calls and messages, further strengthening its key role in the politics of a nation ruled by military regimes for almost half its independent history. The powerful military plays an oversized role in making and breaking governments in Pakistan, where the new powers for its Inter-Services Intelligence agency provoked outcry from the opposition and on social media. Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar told parliament the ministry of information technology and telecommunications had been advised of the change in a July 8 notice.This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.

Top news of the day: Round 2 of NDA vs INDIA as 13 assembly seats in 7 states go to bypolls today; Bengal on focus, Mihir Shah, an absconding accused in the Mumbai BMW hit-and-run case and son of Shiv Sena leader Rajesh Shah, was arrested by police on Tuesday, PM Modi, Russian President Putin condemn terrorist attacks in Kathua, Dagestan, Moscow, Helly Shah admits to taking a three-year acting break before Gullak 4, Gautam Gambhir's appointment marked a new chapter in Indian cricket

This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.It's the 9th of July and here are today's headlines.Worli Police today arrested Mihir Shah, son of CM Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena leader Rajesh Shah, who was absconding for three days after he allegedly mowed down a woman with his speeding BMW. The accused hit a 45-year-old victim in Worli while driving a BMW car around and was suspected to have consumed alcohol at Global Tapas Bar. The speeding BMW car owned by the Shinde Sena leader rammed into a two-wheeler on which she was travelling and dragged her on the bonnet for nearly two kilometres before flinging her on the road, in Mumbai on Sunday morning, police said.In light of the subdued showers, the India Meteorological Department has downgraded the red alert and now sounded a yellow alert in Mumbai which is slated to remain in place until tomorrow morning. The weather department has indicated that the city may witness heavy rainfall in isolated pockets today. While no warning has been issued in Mumbai till tomorrow, a yellow alert has been sounded again between Thursday and Saturday.In another indication that he intends to continue playing an active role in the BJD, party chief Naveen Patnaik has removed all state-level office-bearers of the BJD and got himself a first-ever ‘political secretary'. The removal of leaders across state units was done by Patnaik hours after he had attended the Rath Yatra in Puri. An order signed by the former chief minister said that the new officer-bearers will be appointed soon. The choice of the political secretary also sent a message, with Patnaik picking a former corporate executive who joined the BJD before the elections – and lost – Santrupt Misra.Describing Russia as a trusted ally and all-weather friend at a community event in Moscow this morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the opening of two new Indian consulates in the country — in Kazan and Yekaterinburg — to enhance travel and trade. On a two-day visit to Russia, PM Modi hailed President Vladimir Putin‘s leadership in strengthening the bilateral relationship over the past two decades during his address to the Indian diaspora. Meanwhile, Russia has broadly heeded to India's call to end the recruitment of Indians as support staff to the Russian military and ensure the return of those still operating in the force, according to top sources.As Modi met Putin in Moscow, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Tuesday expressed "huge disappointment", calling it a "devastating blow to peace efforts". Speaking about an attack on a children's hospital in the capital Kyiv, Zelenskyy wrote on X, quote, "It is a huge disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts to see the leader of the world's largest democracy hug the world's most bloody criminal in Moscow on such a day," Unquote.This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.

Putin Hosts Modi After Hailing ‘Best in History' Ties With India Rival China, Police forms team to nab main accused Mihir Shah in hit and run case in Worli, 2024 France elections: Left wing coalition wins most seats but fails to win majority, Abhishek Sharma's first T20 ton helps India beat Zimbabwe by 100 runs to draw level in 5-game series, Ryan Reynolds hint at non-superhero movie project with Hugh Jackman

Supreme Court asks NTA for NEET-UG paper leak disclosure, next hearing on July 11, Mumbai BMW hit-and-run: CCTV footage shows absconding Mihir Shah; look out circular issued, Rahul Gandhi in Manipur: Congress MP meets displaced persons at Churachandpur camp, 'He was very happy when I got out for 0': Abhishek Sharma video calls Yuvraj Singh after maiden T20, FIR filed on YouTuber for ‘pedophilia joke' after Sai Dharam Tej's post; Manchu Manoj, Nara Rohith also call him out

Shelley and I check out the co-op expansion for Stonemaier Game's Viticulture and Tuscany - one of our favorite titles - called  Viticulture World by Mihir Shah and Francesco Testini, with original designers Jamey Stegmaier and Alan Stone then we get into the wayback machine an enjoy getting  Showmanager by Dirk Henn from Queen Games back to the table - the original which has been re-released as Atlantic Star and then again as Show Manager Remember that you can help support the podcast by going onto Patreon and becoming a patron - www.patreon.com/garrettsgames OR  buy a game from our extensive 'these no longer fit on the shelf' list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16ovRDNBqur0RiAzgFAfI0tYYnjlJ68hoHyHffU7ZDWk/edit?usp=sharing  

This is Dice Tower Now for the week of August 1, 2022. This week, everyone gets a pinball for christmas, Kolossal is Almost Innocent, we Flatout compare Cities to Salads, and I'm in Colorado!   TOP STORIES (2:00) North Star Games rebrands WizKids announces Super Skill Pinball Holiday Special Dice Hunters of Therion coming from Richard Garfield Munchkin Turtle Carnage coming from Steve Jackson Games Marvel Legendary expansions 29, 30, and 31 detailed HeroQuest Frozen Horror expansion on Hasbro Pulse Magic the Gathering UnFinity announced Cranio Creations My Shelfe from Phil Walker-Harding and Matthew Dunstan Dulce coming from Stronghold Games and Julio E. Nazario Almost Innocent from Kolossal Games and designer Philippe Attali Fantasy Flight announces last physical expansion for Journeys in Middle Earth Flatout Games making Point City Galileo Project will be sequel to Ganymede from Hachette Hachette making party game Oh Really Smash Up 10th Anniversary Edition coming from AEG Insecta: Ladies of Entomology coming from Mont Tàber   CROWDFUNDING (14:15) Taverns and Dragons Copperdale Euthia: Fierce Powers Isle of Trains: All Aboard Shu's Tactics   SPONSOR UPDATE (20:20) New hires at Lucky Duck   NEW RELEASES (22:25) Cosmic Encounter: Cosmic Odyssey Campaign by Fantasy Flight Games So, You've Been Eaten by Scott Almes and Ludicreations It's a Wonderful Kingdom by Frédéric Guérard, published by Lucky Duck Viticulture World: Cooperative Expansion designed by Mihir Shah and Francesco Testini, published by Stonemaier Games Ice Hoppers by Oussama Khelifati, published by Blue Orange Games EXIT: The Lord Of The Rings - Shadows Over Middle-Earth by Inka and Markus Brand, published by Thames Kosmos     CONNECT: Follow our Twitter newsfeed: twitter.com/dicetowernow Dig in with Corey at DiceTowerDish.com. Have a look-see at Barry's wares at BrightBearLaser.com.

 "I saw a wino with a bag of grapes and I was like ... dude, you have to wait!" This week, Paxton and Kiwi provide no wine knowledge what-so-ever to bP, but they do bring some math ability and planning skills, as the three play Viticulture World designed by Mihir Shah and Francesco Tetstini, published by Stonemaier Games in 2022. Post your comments to Twitter/Instagram @FirstTurnCast or email us at firstturntabletop@gmail.com. Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe! Until next week, play more games!

In this episode, Mihir Shah, Head of Data Architecture and Engineering at Fidelity Investments, shares insights into executing a successful data strategy across all your business units, Fidelity Investments movement to the cloud, data liquidity and much more.---------Join The World of Data Collaboration at Snowflake Summit this June in Las Vegas. At Snowflake Summit, you can learn from hundreds of technical, data, and business experts about what's possible in the Data Cloud. Learn more and register for Snowflake Summit at www.snowflake.com/summit.

Mihir Shah of Royal Circuits joined us to talk about how PCBs are fabricated and how companies are funded. Mihir was CEO of InspectAR before they were acquired by Cadence. Mihir works for Royal Circuits and runs a newsletter called TheAnalog.io We talked about InspectAR on Embedded 384: What Is a Board File? with Liam Cadigan. Transcript for this show This episode is sponsored by Newark, a leading international distributor of industrial and electronic components. From design and testing to production and maintenance, discover why so many choose to partner with Newark!

Cable operators in India have been going through a tough time. Nearly a decade ago, when the government mandated digitisation of cable TV, those who did not want to spend on new set-top boxes gave up on their subscriptions. Another blow came in 2019 when telecom regulator TRAI's New Tariff Order complicated channel selection and raised prices.  Data from the broadcast Audience Research Council shows that as many as 210 million households in India owned a television set in 2020. This is a 6.9 per cent increase from 2018, when there were 197 million TV homes.  But the number of cable homes in India has fallen from 115 million to 100 million. According to a report by credit rating agency CRISIL, DTH subscriber base substantially increased in FY20, as the cable TV subscribers shifted after the implementation of the New Tariff Order. This was because the cable operators were struggling with integration and roll-out challenges. At the end of 2020, India had about 70 million DTH customers. This is in addition to DD Free Dish, which is estimated to have crossed 40 million subscribers. On the other hand, cable's share of total television subscribers has steadily declined from 63 per cent in FY15 to 43 per cent in FY20.  The pricing parity led to a 30-35 per cent increase in cable TV tariffs, which eroded the price advantage it enjoyed over DTH. This also meant that the average revenue per user of DTH and cable TV has been converging quickly.  Mihir Shah, the vice-president of Media Partners Asia, told our columnist Vanita Kohli-Kandehkar that “cable as a standalone video service is on a structural decline”. No major foreign investor has entered the sector though 100 per cent FDI is allowed. With increasing options like phone, OTT platforms and Free Dish capturing customers' eyeballs, cable operators are looking at new ways to grow. The industry has now been playing up the internet as their core offering as video consumption pattern is showing a gradual shift from TV channels to streaming services. Therefore, to reinvent themselves, cable companies will have to deploy a broader set of products surrounding the internet connection. The television industry revenues are estimated to grow at a rate of seven per cent annually to Rs 84,700 crore in 2023. This presents an opportunity for the cable industry to embed itself further into the households by providing related services and increase its share of the pie.

In this podcast Andy and Chris talk to Dr Mihir Shah, owner of Kreate Dental. Mihir graduated in 2013 and became the proud of Kreate Dental some 5 years later in 2018. With his ongoing enthusiasm and drive, Mihir has since reinvented the practice into a state-of-the-art centre of excellence providing both NHS and Private dental services with an array of specialists. In this episode, Mihir tells us more about his amazing journey into practice ownership.

Here's a fact you probably didn't know: it's not uncommon at all for a ransomware payment to be only a small portion of the overall financial impact of an attack. The bigger part, quite often, is the income lost by the business downtime. Mihir Shah, CEO/Co-Founder, StorCentric, believes that recovery should happen in a matter of hours, minimizing losses. He discussed the ransomware epidemic on this episode of “10 on Tech” with ActualTech Media Partner James Green. Do you have a comprehensive strategy for getting your company back on its feet after an attack? Are you sure? Do you think that ransomware insurance is enough to protect you? If so, this is a must-listen episode. Highlights of the show include: How to protect edge data The crucial ability to recover quickly from a ransomware attack The difficulty of protecting data that can be anywhere The cost difference between paying a ransom and business downtime Why one successful ransomware attack can quickly lead to others The drawbacks of ransomware insurance policies Resource links from the show: StorCentric homepage -- https://storcentric.com/ Blog: Advanced Ransomware Protection Against the Threat of Ransomware -- https://storcentric.com/advanced-ransomware-protection-against-the-threat-of-ransomware/ StorCentric case studies -- https://storcentric.com/resources/resource-center/case-studies/ We hope you enjoy this episode; and don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher.­

Various EU countries have approved India's vaccines for arriving travellers. Those vaccinated with Covishield are now eligible for travel to Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Iceland and Switzerland, whereas Estonia has recognised all the vaccines authorised by India. And in today's tech conversation, we talk to Mihir Shah about how his company UE Life Sciences is making early cancer detection for women more affordable and accessible

Sponsor: We want to thank Cyber City Circuits (https://shop.cybercitycircuits.com/discount/HELLOBLINKSHOW) for sponsoring this episode! Cyber City Circuits is an electronics shop and contract manufacturer based in Augusta, GA. Use the coupon code HELLOBLINKSHOW to receive 10% off your order of electronics or mention that you heard about them on the Hello Blink Show for a 25% discount on the assembly costs of manufacturing. Overview: In this episode of the Hello Blink Show, Harris and Shawn interview electrical engineer, Mihir Shah. Mihir shares his insights into the success of his latest startup and his acquisition by another firm. Listeners will hear his advice as he shares his experience with selling inspectAR to Cadence Design Systems. One Powerful Quotation: * 9:16: Mihir - “Fundamentally, your business has to make money…And if you don’t understand that this is going to make money, then don’t even bother going to an investor…Investors inherently are not bad people; there’re not sharks; their job is to buy into companies and in many ways help them get to a successful exit so they can get a return.” Key Topics: * 1:03: Shawn opens the show by asking Mihir to describe inspectAR and how he envisioned the design to debug hardware. * 3:43: Shawn inquires with Mihir about the inspiration to form inspectAR as a need for the market. * 9:16: Harris advocates for Mihir to make the case for capital investment. * 13:55: Mihir tells the story of what he pitched investors inspectAR as a lens for how all interactions and electronics will be done. * 19:30: Shawn inquires with Mihir about his acquisition and how that changes the process of growing and building a business if it’s your exit strategy. * 24:27: Shawn follows up with Mihir about VC funding and how it met the needs of his business. * 27:49: Mihir explains the how and why of his structured acquisition plan. * 29:00: Mihir delves into the promenade process and his internal champion at Cadence that made his exit strategy successful. * 35:09: Mihir shares his background and why his work experience was so invaluable to his professional development. * 46:49: Shawn wraps up the show and encourages Mihir to impart his final advice to listeners. List of Resources Website - InspectAR (https://www.inspectar.com/) Website - Cadence Design Systems (https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home.html) Website - Royal Circuits (https://www.royalcircuits.com/) Website - Y Combinator (https://www.ycombinator.com/) Website - Autodesk (https://www.autodesk.com) Website - Transistor FM (https://www.transistorfm.com) LinkedIn - Justin Jackson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinijackson/) Website - Paul Graham - Don’t Talk To Corp Dev (http://paulgraham.com/corpdev.html) Website - Axon (https://www.axon.com/) LinkedIn - Luke Larson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-larson-573130a/) Website - LaBarge Weinstein (https://www.lwlaw.com/) LinkedIn - Colin Wrynn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-wrynn-656bba1/) LinkedIn - Alicia Grant (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicia-grant-36318972/) Guest Contact Information* LinkedIn - Mihir Shah (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mihirmshah8/) Twitter - Mihir Shah (https://twitter.com/Mihir_Shah_8) Host Contact Information: shawnhymel.com (https://shawnhymel.com/) kennyconsultinggroup.com (http://kennyconsultinggroup.com) LinkedIn - Shawn Hymel (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnhymel/) LinkedIn - Harris Kenny (https://www.linkedin.com/in/harriskenny/) Twitter - Shawn Hymel (https://www.twitter.com/ShawnHymel) Twitter - Harris Kenny (https://www.twitter.com/harriskenny) License Information: “Hello Blink Show” by Kenny Consulting Group, LLC and Skal Risa, LLC is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Intro and outro song is “Routine” by Amine Maxwell is licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) Special Guest: Mihir Shah.

The Indian consumer sector has been a stock market darling, outperforming the Sensex by over 25 percentage points over the last two years. What are the megatrends to drive growth in the next five years? Listen to Mihir Shah, Analyst on the Consumer Staples team in India, discuss his findings.

The Indian consumer sector has been a stock market darling, outperforming the Sensex by over 25 percentage points over the last two years. What are the megatrends to drive growth in the next five years? Listen to Mihir Shah, Analyst on the Consumer Staples team in India, discuss his findings.

The Indian consumer sector has been a stock market darling, outperforming the Sensex by over 25 percentage points over the last two years. What are the megatrends to drive growth in the next five years? Listen to Mihir Shah, Analyst on the Consumer Staples team in India, discuss his findings.

Drobo CEO Mihir Shah is back on the launch day of  the newest member of the Drobo family and successor to the Drobo Pro, the Drobo 8D. Boasting eight drive bays that can accommodate both SSD and rotational drives, the 8D can support volume sizes up to 148TB, making it perfect for prosumer and creative professionals. Mihir outlines all the improvements to this, the fastest Drobo yet, that include two Thunderbolt 3 ports, an Accelerator Bay, and some new software management tools. This edition of MacVoices is supported Opsgenie by Atlassian.Your next incident doesn’t stand a chance. Sign up for a free account and add up to five team members now. and by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss  - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Mihir Shah  is the CEO of Drobo. He has held positions at BlueFin Technologies, Brocade and iBM before coming to Drobo. He has served as advisor to a number of startups, and is a football fan. You can follow him on Twitter. Links:

Drobo CEO Mihir Shah is back on the launch day of  the newest member of the Drobo family and successor to the Drobo Pro, the Drobo 8D. Boasting eight drive bays that can accommodate both SSD and rotational drives, the 8D can support volume sizes up to 148TB, making it perfect for prosumer and creative professionals. Mihir outlines all the improvements to this, the fastest Drobo yet, that include two Thunderbolt 3 ports, an Accelerator Bay, and some new software management tools. This edition of MacVoices is supported Opsgenie by Atlassian.Your next incident doesn’t stand a chance. Sign up for a free account and add up to five team members now. and by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss  - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Mihir Shah  is the CEO of Drobo. He has held positions at BlueFin Technologies, Brocade and iBM before coming to Drobo. He has served as advisor to a number of startups, and is a football fan. You can follow him on Twitter. Links:

Host and KYW Newsradio community affairs reporter Cherri Gregg asks the burning questions about the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections recent policy changes that ban shipment of books to inmates and new processes for mail. Su Ming Yeh, managing attorney at the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project, Dr. Brian O'Neill, criminal justice radio host and West Chester University associate professor, and Michael Wilson a former juvenile lifer who spent nearly 47 years behind bars discuss various aspects of the new policies. The Newsmaker of the week is Mihir Shah, CEO of UE Life Sciences, the licensee of the technology behind iBreastExam. Finally, the Changemaker of the week is Rush Arts Philadelphia, a non-profit founded by Danny Simmons. Flashpoint airs every Saturday at 9:30pm and Sunday at 8:30am on KYW Newsradio. Subscribe to the Flashpoint Podcast on the Apple Podcast, Radio.com or others apps where you get your podcast by searching "Flashpoint KYW."   See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode of Shunya One, we are joined by Gourav Bhattacharya, Director of Matrix Partners India. Gourav talks about what they look into before investing in a company or a concept. The discussions also highlights the future and economics of e-commerce business in India. Previously on Shunya One, Mihir Shah, Vice President, Product & Marketing Growth at Hotstar. Catch that episode here! You can reach out to Gourav on e-mail at gourav@matrixpartners.in , Tweet to Shiladitya @shiladitya and Amit @doshiamit for your questions or reactions to this episode! To join the Shunya One slack channel, request for an invite here: http://ivmpodcasts.com/shunyaone Listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcast App on Android: https://goo.gl/tGYdU1 or iOS: https://goo.gl/sZSTU5

On this episode of Shunya One, we are joined by Mihir Shah, Vice President, Product & Marketing Growth at Hotstar. He talks as to how the IPL watch & play became a huge success during the IPL. He also draws a comparison between US & Indian markets in terms of consumer behavior. Tweet to Mihir @mihirshah56, Shiladitya @shiladitya and Amit @doshiamit for your questions or reactions to this episode! To join the Shunya One slack channel, request for an invite here: http://ivmpodcasts.com/shunyaone Listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcast App on Android: https://goo.gl/tGYdU1 or iOS: https://goo.gl/sZSTU5

From Tesla to consumer devices, Mihir Shah has been a PCB designer among the best. Now, as Director of Special Projects at Royal Circuit Solutions, he is pioneering ways to make manufacturing easy for printed circuit board designers. Meet Mihir and Jon Lass, co-founder and VP of Engineering at Royal Circuits, and listen in as they discuss manufacturing best practices and share various insights on symmetrical stackups, solder mask, and copper weights. Get a wide range of PCB design tips and learn how same-day turn times on printed circuit boards is possible at high-quality board shops like Royal Circuits.   Watch the video and read get all show notes.    Hey everyone this is Judy with Altium's OnTrack Podcast. We are glad to have you back again, the podcast continues to grow and we thank you for listening and I know that you are tuning in because I have amazing guests like I have today so I would like to introduce you to my guest but before I do I would like to  invite you to connect with me on LinkedIn. I'd love to connect with you and share a lot of information relative to PCB design and engineering and also on Twitter I'm @AltiumJudy and Altium is on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn so we like to have conversations with you, not just monologues; so please connect and make sure you subscribe to our podcast too so we can keep making these. Today we are with a couple of great people that are involved in US manufacturing of printed circuit boards. I'd like to introduce you to Mihir Shah, who is Director of Special Projects at Royal Circuits. Mihir actually was an EE and has lots of experience - hands-on experience - being in the trenches and doing design work. His father right, it's your dad that owns Royal Circuits Mihir? [Mihir nods] And so his dad somehow sucked him into the manufacturing industry. So we're glad to have him there actually, we need more young blood and also, we have Jon Lass who is the VP of Engineering. He's also one of the original founders of Royal Circuits, so gentlemen welcome thanks for joining today. Thanks this is great. So Mihir, I'm going to start with you. Why don't you tell us a little bit about your background and then give us a little blurb on Royal Circuits? Sure, so as you kind of alluded to I'm an Electrical Engineer. I started my career at Tesla Motors where I was working on a lot of the cool things with Model X, and Model X, back in the early beta days of that vehicle. I just got crazy hands-on experience learning how to design your own boards hands-on for everything, just do things quick and get a design approach to rapid prototyping, which was great. And then I went to Taser - now known as Axon - where we worked on consumer devices that are - I mean literally - the Taser device. So I was more on the power electronics side of the Taser weapon and some things on the body camera so a really, really great experience albeit limited, but really great in the short time that I was a fulltime design engineer. And then you know, somehow, some way, my dad convinced me to join the manufacturing side of things. Yay Dad! I'm kind of - one of the roles is always like: look, you were buying boards and designed them for a while, now come here on the other side and try to make it as easy, clean, and simple as possible for people to order them now that you've seen often times, what a pain it is, or all the mistakes that you kind of made, or things that delayed the time, cost etc can help on the manufacturing side and now, Royal Circuits, just to give a brief overview of who we are, and kind of our main value proposition. We're a big US manufacturer of purely quick-turn, prototype, printed circuit boards. The whole idea is one, two, three-day turns in the Bay Area, same-day turns and weekend turns - totally acceptable, and all owned and operated by us, all here in the United States. So we have two factories: one right here in Hollister where I am now, right in the Bay Area, and then we have a factory down in Los Angeles that's purely flex and rigid flex. We really focus on that technology down there, so we've been doing this for over 20 years. You know, we have our customers range anywhere from large tech companies like ones you've heard of, like Google etc. Students, Stanford, Caltech, UPN, MIT and military.We're ITAR certified, and then thousands and thousands of other customers in that group and more. So we do everything from simple two layer boards all the way to 30 layer, HDI  , High Density Interconnect, PCBs, fab and assembly - no minimum order quantity. So really, really focus on the low volume, super quick turn, with an incredible focus on customer service and making sure that people get their boards when they need them and at the price that they want them at, right here. Wow, Jon can you tell us a little bit about your background in the industry and your history at Royal and what you do there? Sure, so my background has been Engineering for about 30 years. I started out in the CAM/CAD industry and was involved in the very early days of photo plotting when we used to build boards with films that have,   actual direct imaging as we're doing today. My dad and I founded the company 20 years ago here in Hollister and we - like Mihir pointed out - it's always been about quick turn, 1 to 3 dating, prototypes, all the way from 2 to 30 layers and, very exotic type of materials and boards. So we've been around for 20 years servicing our customers and we still have some of the same customers 20 years later. That's a good report card! That's an excellent report card. That's how we look at it too. Well my favorite stat about the company - just to interject - is that we really do have a 1 percent turnover in 20 years. I mean, I really encourage you to find another company in the United States that has such a low employee turnover. Everywhere I'm looking, Jon is a testament to that, people don't leave, we just keep growing here and in LA. And in some of the other kind of businesses that we run, same deal. Customers first. Ok so I'm going to become a board industry geek for a moment but I want to point out something about that, that may or may not be obvious to our audience; but something that I've noted when you do work with a board house that has low turnover, your quality remains consistent because there aren't people coming in muddying the waters all the time, are on a learning curve, or trying to insert something and so your processes stay a lot tighter and cleaner. And that may be something obvious but it's just something that I observed over the years working for multiple board shops and assembly shops. It was a statistic, before I chose to represent one of those places is, what is your turnover? Because I knew that would create a lot of chaos not only for me, but for my customers, because of the fluctuation, customers, designers, will say to me: I was doing business with XYZ company and all of a sudden - they were great for eight years - and all of a sudden they lost the recipe and I go: uh-oh, they have had employees change. I know exactly what happened. So I know, we've all seen it, maybe an obvious point but something I thought worth pointing out to our listeners. We appreciate that point, and I will also say that our Production Manager's been here for 18 of the 20 years, so again, it does make a difference. It does make a huge difference. And Jon, your tenure there and being - yeah that's just wonderful. That's again, a great report on you guys.  So this morning what I thought we'd talk about is stack up and impedance, but from a manufacturing point - what you guys can teach designers and engineers that are laying out boards. How you can help them sort of avoid some pitfalls relative to stack up and impedance from a manufacturing standpoint? So Jon, maybe I'll start out with you, or maybe you both want to kind of ping-pong this one  for the uninitiated, let's just talk about what kind of implications there are specific to stack ups with materials? I mean that's where you start. Do we have enough time? [laughter] We could do a whole thing on materials maybe we need to do that? Because you just said you had a lot of exotic materials I'm like: oh they're one of those. Okay so all right, let's talk about materials, sorry. You know, I'm just starting - again just the very basics. Our main is FR4 high-temperature FR4 materials but we do get into a lot of Rogers materials for the RF type designs   a lot of hybrid combinations a little bit of Teflon so just there's different variances on what you can use. But diving into stack ups, what a lot of people don't think about from the impedance standpoint is, what are we doing with the the outer layers as far as the copper weights and the plating? And I'm touching on that real quick, because when you start out with a half ounce copper foil and then you plate up another additional ounce - sometimes when they're doing the modeling in the software - they're putting in half ounce and they model it and they get a certain number. But in reality when you manufacture it, you're plating on the surface, so a lot of times I'll get, from design engineers: well my model shows that it should be, 50 ohms and you guys are coming out at 55 ohms? It's like: well, you're not taking into consideration all the plating on the surface and that makes a big difference. And so we get a lot of that where there's a lot of model software out there on the internet people can go to. We use a software called 'Archeo' it's a very very deep system, as far as it actually takes into consideration all the dielectric constants of the materials you're using in your stack up. For example, different cores are built with different prepregs, and so they have different dielectric constants. Some of the modeling software on the internet gives you one setting so you can put in 4.1 or 4.2 for your DK value but in reality, depending on how the materials build you have different DK values that can range all the way from maybe 3.8 to 4.2 on a certain materials like these; I sold a 370 HR for example. So when creating the stackup, we have  all of that in there, we have all the pretty products the laminates that are being used, even the LPI and all the dielectric constants and when we're modeling that, impedance becomes very very accurate compared to the models are on the internet. So - I wanted you to pause right there, you said LPI, so that's Liquid Photo Image of a solder mask. So do you typically put the solder mask in when you're doing your models? Absolutely you do, because that's a big, big critical part. Another example - I'm glad you brought that up because again, they go out and model on the internet; they're not putting on the solder mask, they're not putting on the copper plating. As I mentioned, they get a completely different value, and then when we come to model it we're going back and telling them we need to change their stackup they may have defined on their fab drawing, because it doesn't meet the impedance requirements. And also you do get a lot of designers that understand that and they'll put notes on the fab drawing saying the manufacturer can adjust the dielectric, spacing, or the trace width within, plus or minus 10% to obtain that value. Yeah, and like you said, I think that's a good point, say in the case of Isola, or any laminate, they might put a datasheet that’s about 3.8, but it's not exactly 3.8, it can vary in a minor way, from lot to lot, is that correct? Not so much lot to lot as it is from material to material so they -  if you build all the way from 3 core to 47 core, they're using 106 and 108s and these are all prepreg styles that I'm mentioning, and each one has a different dielectric constant. So if you get a combination of them, you end up with a different value - and that again - depending on how your stackup is generated, one discussion Mihir and I had earlier today, is about designers that specify in their fab drawing the stackup they want you to follow, and they can send it to board house X, Y and Z but if, for example, let's say they have a four-layer and they want to specify they want 8 mil dielectric spacing between 1 & 2 and 4 & 3. Well, we may use a different series of prepregs to obtain that than another fab house and again, DK values - different impedance readings. So all that comes into play. Yeah and that's a trade off, that's a consideration the design engineer has to make in terms of how they're doing the prototyping, what the outlook is for them, and the turn times and the costing you know, there's other factors outside the actual design of performance on the circuit itself because if you do it, and you have it once, then you say this is my design so at least you will have more consistency amongst different manufacturers because you see, I need these materials, I need backup I did it - do it. But you'll have consistency in the final product but you more I mean most certainly, will not have consistency in the turn times. The available materials that different guys have, especially when you start getting to the more the exotics, and the high-frequency stuff. So that could start playing into effect and people charge different amounts for it based on the lead time, what they have in stock, what they want to charge, etcetera as that gets complicated but at least, it'll be more close to a similar design on revision vs. if you say, look: I'm just gonna let the manufacturer do it and tailor it towards what I can get quickest and at best cost that'll still give me my main factors and whether they're controlled impedance or stackup height or whatever - and let them do that. So that's kind of the two different ways that people can go about designing. My impression Jon, before you go on, is that a lot of designers do kind of hand off that stack off to their manufacturers. Do you think that's true? Yes, we do get it kind of both ways. In some cases, we just get a stackup, for example, if they want it to be 062 plus or minus 10% that gives you the layers that have the impedance requirements, and then we go and generate the stackup and manufacture the board. To me that's probably the more straightforward way because you're guaranteed you get what you want. Sometimes they're specific about what they want. They call out the dielectric spacings, the core material is everything and now you have to build that stack up, then plug in their numbers and model it, and then it usually doesn't come out the way they thought it was going to. And again, we touched on two reasons why. So you kind of get a little bit of both. But what I was gonna start saying is, that we also offer a service, a stackup service that you can come to us at pre-design.  You've got your board all laid out, you're ready to do your routing, and you can come to us and say: hey, I have a six layer and eight layer design, this is the material that we want to use, and you can tell us a little bit about your design. Which layers are plane layers, which ones are the signals. We don't look at the reference to this is, ninety ohm diffs, and 100 ohm diffs, and then we can go ahead and model that stack up at that time. We can come back and tell you what size traces to use for the single-ended, the tracing space for the differential pairs, the copper weights, everything. We can come back and give you that complete stackup. So now, that's using our materials. Our DK values, our stackup software, and then when you go to Roger design - if you use those numbers - then when we get back your design and your stack up - the project’s done. Which I think's a really great model, because then you're doing this partnership - the designers telling you where they're trying to get - you're actually informing them, from a manufacturing standpoint, best practices, and I love that whenever that happens. I wish it happened more. That's right, that's free of charge - again right at the beginning stage - to me that's the smoothest way to do it. And then you have a stack up you can actually send in with your data package and you'll be guaranteed you'll get what you want. That's awesome, what a great service I love that. You've talked a little bit about it, is there anything you want to add? The distribution of copper I get. I used to specialize in RF and microwave boards and that issue you talked about where they model it without the plating ending up on the outer layers right. The inner layers it doesn't matter, but the outer layers, you have to do multiple planing cycles and then it's completely outside of the range of what they simulated and I'm like: I don't know why, and without a fundamental understanding of the manufacturing process it's easy to see how that could get missed. Is there anything else you wanted to talk about? I'm gonna ask you guys three or four or five tips and tricks to give people who are listening some takeaways. But before I do, is there anything else you wanted to add relative to stackup in regards to manufacturing or distribution of copper? Maybe just a brief... oh sorry Jon do you want to go? I was just gonna touch on, you were talking about outer layers and then inner layers. If they want to use heavier copper, I like to point out that that's great on plane layers because when you have a heavier copper, your z-axis is higher and now when you go to put the prepreg in, you have to have enough resin to fill in there. And if you don't have enough resin then it can cause delamination or other manufacturing issues. So again, to point out, we get a lot of that too. We get a lot where they want 2 ounce copper on the inner layers, and they'll mix their traces and planes together and they'll be putting 4 mil traces on 2 ounces of copper. That doesn't work, that doesn't work at all. Yeah and then you have a trace that looks like this [gestures] right like or this - they're not this any more there cuz that's a hard if... yeah it's not a good idea. So just keep in consideration, from a copper distribution standpoint in layers. You have to nest prepreg in between them, it definitely makes a difference. So, if you're dealing with half ounce copper, no problem - you can pretty much do whatever you want. When you start getting above one ounce, then it starts changing the ballgame. So, from a proper distribution standpoint, just take that into consideration when you have - I'm going back to impedance - but when you have impedance on the outer layers and you're referencing to a plane layer underneath. Try to leave it all solid plane without mixing it with signals. That makes a big difference. Because now, you have a nice, consistent, even, solid dielectric spacing between the two - so that's a definite plus. Like a six layer, for example, where you have power ground on layer 2 & 5 and then 3 or 4 signal layers, you have to use a lot more prepreg to nest in between there. So again, try to pull up most of your dielectric spacing between those two areas because you're going to need  more of it to nest the prepreg. So that's a little bit about copper distribution. All right, all right guys, so let's talk about some real practical takeaways right now for designers and engineers who design boards that are listening today, from a manufacturing standpoint. I'm sure that you see some of the same oversights being made on a consistent basis. Can you give us three to five tips and tricks; things that designer should look out for when best design for manufacturing practices that you guys see. Mihir, why don't you kick off? Sure, well mine has a bit of a tie-in more on the design side, because that is more of my background especially that's right now, but there's really two main design areas when it comes to stackups and manufacturability. It's the whole RF analog side and then this digital - high-speed digital - side and they're kind of characterized by two very different, but very heavy driving factors. On the RF analog side you generally find your designs more influenced by the necessity for a low dielectric constant, low signal loss, low leakage, and then generally these have a lower layer count so you really need a low and uniform dielectric constant and all these other things. So your choice of exotic material is gonna be far more important. But you don't necessarily need to work - that's gonna be more of an important bigger part of your cost, and a factor in your design decision. It's just more important to the design. Whereas with a lot of more high-speed digital stuff, these are usually a way higher layer count, and they have all these other things like burying blind vias, really, really tight  traces, and just all these crazy ICs that have like a hundred pins of BGAs that needs all sorts of fan-out etc, and so your costs on that was gonna be way more driven towards the actual manufacturing time and the complexity, and to a lot of people it sounds obvious probably, on this podcast, it is. But I mean you'd be surprised even as you're designing stuff, people really don't fully understand that buried and blind vias, while they're so easy to throw in on in Altium and just say, this is great, everything routes up perfectly. It does add a lot of cost and time. You could manufacture it, but it's seriously gonna impact your design when you have to do board back, so that's gonna be far more important than generally your choice of material. But obviously, as layer count increases that cost is going to be driven up too. So things like that. You have to take into consideration the differences in the designs and things that engineers are looking at when they're designing them and how that plays out usually in cost and lead time. There's a lot of trade-offs aren't there? Yes, that's right. What would you say Jon? Well let's tackle unbalanced stackups for a second. Because we get a lot of that- Pretzels? Yeah pretty much. So again, I mean one of the things you need to take into consideration is, you want to have a symmetrical stack up. A lot of time too - especially if they're using hybrids - so they'll put a thick ten core Rogers on the top, and then something thin on the bottom. And again you want to have a balanced stackup, otherwise you're gonna end up with a warped board that to me is a very, very key thing, is to keep it symmetrical. We'll get those stack ups, we'll have to go back and tell them: listen is it possible, the chance of warpage, and try to explain to them. They need to be symmetrical, so that's something to take into consideration from the get-go. Another one that we get a lot of, and I think I touched base on it a little bit; is to take into consideration the copper weights you call out in the trace and space that you're routing. Because it makes a big difference. So you know, if you're going to be doing a three mil trace with a three mil space, we have to start with quarter ounce copper and then, on the outer layers we have to plate on the surface. If it's on the inner layers, you can do small trace and space on half ounce copper. But once you start getting to two ounce copper and above, you need to be around six and seven mil tracing space. And we get a lot of that, where we have to go back and tell them: listen your design has four and four you're calling out for one ounce copper, two ounce copper, it's not possible, so we're gonna have to go ahead now and reduce the copper weight, or even worse, that they have to stick with a heavier copper. They have to go redesign their board and lose time. Explain that, it may be obvious, but explain why that's impossible? I've run up against this a whole bunch of times, but explain because it may not be as obvious as it is to you and me Jon. Why can't you take two ounces of copper and do a four ounce or 4 mil trace or three mil trace, what happens? There's two scenarios: one is when you give us a design that's 4 mil trace for the 4 mil space between trace and trace, and trace and pad. In order to finish - after etching that trace - we have to do what's called an x-factor. So now we have to increase that trace, X amount, might be one, two, or three mils depending on the copper weight. Because again, having copper it's a higher z-axis. So when you actually have a further distance to etch down to the base of the copper to get down to the laminate, you start losing the feature size as you edge the copper down. So we have to increase that feature size. So if it's a 4 mil trace and it's 2 ounces of copper, we might have to increase that to a 6 or 7 mil trace. But if your air gap is 4 mils - now we're reducing that air gap down to 2 or 3 mils - which is not manufacturable. So that's where you'll be coming to the problem. And again you also have peel strength. I mean if you have a 3 or 4 mil trace on two ounce copper, I mean the chances of it actually peeling off the laminate is much higher, because you have a certain peel strength. So again, you're not gonna have a small trace on a heavy copper feature for various reasons. And maybe even in more layman's terms, because this is what helped me understand it when I was doing - because you really don't learn this stuff when you're studying like for engineering or maybe, I don't pay attention. No, you don't learn it, you don't learn it, you're right. Simplistic, the thing is people, maybe we could even put this up on the video I don't know if you can add that or add a link? If you picture traces from the side view they're not straight up and down. Right? Never. They're at an angle, the reason they kind of look like they're little trapezoids - is because the top of the trace is under the duress of the edge - about the actual chemistry - a lot longer than the bottom. So as it edges down, the top is getting whittled away more than it is at the bottom. So you tend to add an edge like this - if your traces are really close together, you don't have that space in the middle. It looks like you have all the space in the world at the top, when you get towards the bottom of that z-axis, they're actually touching, so you can short out traces that's like the simplest example without getting too deep into everything. Can you undercut in that scenario or am I thinking of it backwards? Yeah, undercutting is a term you kind of get on the outer layers, but when you have the dry form you can kind of get it undercut but for the most part it comes to geometry. I mean, you have a very tight tracing space, and first of all, you have limitations on your gap. And even if you could increase the trace big enough, you're gonna end up like Mihir pointed out, with a very small trace on top and a larger trace on the bottom. Yep it makes sense. Oh yeah a lot of mechanical electrical kind of issues. And as well, I have a friend in the industry who was in the board industry for 40 years, and he used to say: it looks good on paper, but he said physics trump's theory right? Like theoretically, it should work right, but he goes: but physics wins out every time. So Mihir, any more kind of practical design for manufacturing tips that you can think of, or Jon, either one of you? I think we kind of - if people take at least a few tidbits from what they heard today - there'll be an immediate ROI on their time listening, to the success and speed of their design. Good, well I'm excited to announce that Mihir and the Royal team, will be joining us at AltiumLive as our sponsors. They just let me know that today, so I'm very excited! So I'm sure you guys will bring some sample boards, or some video and some great assets that they can look at. They can talk to you one-on-one, learn some more tips and tricks, face to face just gather information, which is sort of the magic of AltiumLive. Our goal is to just put the design community in a room with the supply chain, with people that are very knowledgeable, which are veterans in the industry and just let them rub shoulders and start creating new solutions or just collaborating for successful designs and take some of the pain out of it for all of us. So we're delighted to have you guys in San Diego in October. I really needed an excuse to come to San Diego. Right! I know, and it's on Coronado Bay, so we're staying at the Loews Coronado Bay Hotel so there's water on three sides of this hotel, and it's in October, which is like, October in San Diego is like heaven. It's like 73 degrees, on the water, so... You already sold us! Right it sounds like if you're not coming to learn some design stuff, at least tell your boss you are, and get a nice trip to San Diego... just kidding. So anyways, we're glad to have you and I'm glad to to get to know you guys a little bit more. I know of Royal but I've never gotten to know you until this last week and so it's been a delight to get to know you both and learn from you. And thanks for sharing your DFM wisdom with our listeners, and we look forward to engaging with you more at AltiumLive, and we'll be sure to share many links. I think I have eight links to share from Royal and you can dig more into what they do, who they are, and get to know them a little bit better as I have this week. So I'm sure you'll enjoy that. So Mihir, Jon, thank you again so much for joining today. Thanks for joining on our podcast. Thank you, thank you Judy. Well until next time please subscribe, join, engage with us at Altium we always enjoy learning from you and learning about what you would like to learn about. We're only making guesses unless you tell us specific topics you would like to learn about. So keep the comments coming. We look forward to engaging with you next time on the OnTrack Podcast. Until then, remember to always stay OnTrack.

Drobo CEO Mihir Shah and Nexsan CTO Gary Watson take time out from a busy schedule to tell us about the acquisition of both companies by StorCentric. What this means for customers of both entities is a sharing of expertise and technology that will benefit all levels of storage customers. Mihir and Gary talk us through the roles they will play, how the two brands will remain in place while being part of a larger whole, and how the cloud will figure into their future plans. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Molekule. The only air purifier that actually destroys pollutants. Use the code "MacVoices" at check-out to save $75 on your first order. Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:  - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss  - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Mihir Shah  is the CEO of Drobo. He has held positions at BlueFin Technologies, Brocade and iBM before coming to Drobo. He has served as advisor to a number of startups, and is a football fan. You can follow him on Twitter. Gary Watson co-founded Nexsan in 1999, and has over 35 years of storage engineering experience. He held engineering and engineering management positions at Trimm Technologies, MDB Systems, and Rianda Electronics. His skills include microcode and firmware development, high speed electronic design using discrete components and FPGAs, PCB layout, computer security, and test engineering. A prolific public speaker, Gary has presented at dozens of public and thousands of private meetings. Follow him on Twitter.

Drobo CEO Mihir Shah and Nexsan CTO Gary Watson take time out from a busy schedule to tell us about the acquisition of both companies by StorCentric. What this means for customers of both entities is a sharing of expertise and technology that will benefit all levels of storage customers. Mihir and Gary talk us through the roles they will play, how the two brands will remain in place while being part of a larger whole, and how the cloud will figure into their future plans. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Molekule. The only air purifier that actually destroys pollutants. Use the code "MacVoices" at check-out to save $75 on your first order. Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:  - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss  - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guests: Mihir Shah  is the CEO of Drobo. He has held positions at BlueFin Technologies, Brocade and iBM before coming to Drobo. He has served as advisor to a number of startups, and is a football fan. You can follow him on Twitter. Gary Watson co-founded Nexsan in 1999, and has over 35 years of storage engineering experience. He held engineering and engineering management positions at Trimm Technologies, MDB Systems, and Rianda Electronics. His skills include microcode and firmware development, high speed electronic design using discrete components and FPGAs, PCB layout, computer security, and test engineering. A prolific public speaker, Gary has presented at dozens of public and thousands of private meetings. Follow him on Twitter.

Drobo is a company we've become quite fond of thanks to their myriad of storage solutions. In this chat, we speak with Drobo CEO Mihir Shah about the solutions they offer and who they’re designed for.

In this week's episode of TECHTALK RADIO, JLL Spark co-chief executive Mihir Shah, talks to EG about the creation of a $100m fund to invest in proptech start-ups. The JLL Spark Global Venture Fund will invest in companies focussed on leveraging technology to improve everything from real estate development and management to leasing and investing. It will also help entrepreneurs and their companies by connecting them with JLL’s clients for feedback and distribution of their products. Shah explains how the fund will work and reveals that the team is already in conversation with “at least three” UK-based start-ups. Also in this episode co-hosts Emily Wright and Samantha McClary get overly excited about some new gadgets and reveal more news about EG's latest tech events. 

In this week's episode of TECHTALK RADIO, JLL Spark co-chief executive Mihir Shah, talks to EG about the creation of a $100m fund to invest in proptech start-ups. The JLL Spark Global Venture Fund will invest in companies focussed on leveraging technology to improve everything from real estate development and management to leasing and investing. It will also help entrepreneurs and their companies by connecting them with JLL’s clients for feedback and distribution of their products. Shah explains how the fund will work and reveals that the team is already in conversation with “at least three” UK-based start-ups. Also in this episode co-hosts Emily Wright and Samantha McClary get overly excited about some new gadgets and reveal more news about EG's latest tech events. 

Does your website communicate in ways that potential customers can quickly grasp your story, what your services or your product line are? How do you simplify your message to capture the short attention span and should you rely on your Terms and Conditions to "protect" you from your customers? If your Small Business is getting interest from a larger company that wants to acquire you, who should you focus your energy on? The Deal Sponsor concept can help you narrow down your focus on which person you need to work closely with to make your merger or acquisition a success. Join us today on episode 159 of the Small Business Show for these topics and more! Shannon and Dave also revisit the "Beer Test" to insure that you have a cultural fit before entering into a partnership, joint venture or acquisition and why you need to have all office doors open during a crisis. We spend some time discussing Mihir Shah's 5 C's of a Turnaround and why these points surely apply to all businesses. Listen in and then join us in the Small Business Support Group to share your story or ask questions. Sponsors Jamf Now is a device management solution for your Apple devices at work. We make management tasks simple and affordable, so you can support your users; no IT required. Visit JAMF.com/SBS to get your first 3 devices free for life! Chapters/Timestamps: 00:00:00 Small Business Show #159 for Thursday, February 22, 2018 00:02:00 G4 Design - benefits of telling your story, and having people comment on it. 00:05:39 Teasing out the message 00:07:00 “Wow! I didn't get that from your website at all!” 00:07:46 Learn to simplify your message 00:08:40 Don't rest on your T&Cs 00:10:48 SPONSOR: Visit JAMF.com/SBS to get your first 3 devices free for life! 00:13:05 Mihir Shah from Drobo on Small Business Show 00:13:54 Mihir's concept of a “Deal Sponsor” 00:15:44 “The Beer Test” 00:17:12 Spouse/Family Buy-in 00:17:37 Due diligence on your Deal Sponsor 00:18:32 What's the “cost” of working with your acquirer? 00:19:16 “The business needs someone else” 00:20:36 Mihir Shah's 5 C's of a Turnaround 00:22:12 “Talk to 500 Customers per year” 00:23:45 Cash is King 00:26:22 Accepting when it's time for Plan B 00:28:14 Culture is the “Fatalyst” 00:28:44 Your partners need to believe in your vision 00:29:29 Forced Vesting 00:31:42 “Nobody's Door Gets Closed” 00:32:41 Owed money can't be the elephant in the room 00:34:08 Jean-Louis Gassée's Two Tokens Customer Service 00:37:34 The Hubris of Apple 00:38:30 A Customer problem is a customer opportunity 00:39:35 SBS 159 Outtro

Are you ready to be acquired? Is your Small Business in a position to deal with a larger company that is interested in buying you for your products, your technology or your service revenue? Join us today on the Small Business Show to hear from an expert in mergers and acquisitions, Mihir Shah, CEO of Drobo. Mihir has had years of experience helping companies to analyze possible acquisitions and mergers, working to implement policies and procedures to insure a successful combining of two entities. You'll learn about the two most important aspects of creating a successful acquisition and how your work on the front-end of the deal can help to insure things go right after the paperwork is signed. We also dig deep into supply chain management and how embracing change and understanding that a crisis is just another problem to solve can propel your business success. Listen in for this and much more on this episode of the Small Business Show, then visit the Small Business Support Group to ask your questions or to comment on the show! Sponsors Jamf Now is a device management solution for your Apple devices at work. We make management tasks simple and affordable, so you can support your users; no IT required. Visit JAMF.com/SBS to get your first 3 devices free for life! TextExpander. Summon your snippets in any app on Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Windows using a quick search or by typing your custom abbreviation. Share your snippets with your team, and keep them up to date together. Visit TextExpander.com/podcast for 20% off your first year. Chapters/Timestamps 00:00:00 Small Business Show #158 for Wednesday, February 14, 2018 00:01:03 Mihir Shah from Drobo 00:02:19 Cadavers are … not for me! 00:04:15 Going into the generation-old family business … of business! 00:04:56 Acquisition advice: Find a product market fit 00:06:25 Ensure a cultural fit 00:07:21 Beware science projects 00:09:09 If you're being acquired, understand your acquirer's Business Case 00:12:04 Understand that process is instrumental 00:12:51 Get to know your deal sponsor! 00:14:25 Deal sponsor and founder should understand each other's companies 00:15:44 Sit on the same side of the table 00:16:30 Use “We” 00:17:01 SPONSOR: Visit TextExpander.com/podcast for 20% off your first year. 00:18:28 SPONSOR: Visit JAMF.com/SBS to get your first 3 devices free for life! 00:20:35 Mihir's arrival at Drobo 00:21:27 Hurry up and get money 00:25:17 Dialing for Dollars 00:25:35 “My Brand is Crisis” 00:28:00 Find revenues and expense-to-revenue ratios for a similar, larger company 00:28:45 Favorite mistake? 00:29:27 Don't underestimate the hardware business 00:30:05 How quickly can you adapt to a mistake? 00:31:16 Everything's a challenge! Embrace it. 00:33:38 Don't stop learning! 00:35:21 SBS 158 Outtro www.Drobo.com Drobo on Facebook Drobo on Instagram

Join us for our last episode of 2017 where we share Small Business tips from our favorite shows of the past year. Dave and Shannon both have their favorite guests, topics and advice from episodes of the Small Business Show that aired during the year. We hope you've been able to live a Charmed Life during 2017 and we wish you the best for 2018! Chapters/Timestamps: 00:00:00 Small Business Show #151 for Wednesday, December 27, 2017 00:01:34 Lessons learned throughout the year 00:02:04 Jay Gentile from BoosterBots Created a business out of what he was building to help his other business 00:03:15 Jumpanzee - Live anywhere! 00:04:35 Effective problem solving - The key to being successful The Two Tokens concept 00:06:40 Lance from Bolt NWA - such a unique dude. 00:09:13 Mike Pile of Uppercase Branding        “Brainstorming is a waste of time” 00:10:11 Learning to say No 00:11:41 Introduction of the Revenue Stack concept 00:13:05 Interview with Kyle Baccus of KCTool Selling your business and expanding on the Revenue Stack 00:15:30 SPONSOR: TextExpander.com/podcast gets you 20% off your first year 00:18:42 Listo Pencil - going low tech, and getting smaller to grow Challenges of taking over a multi-generational business 00:20:17 Interview with Cory and Doug from Tanglefree Waterfowl All about quality… lessons learned 00:21:32 Kelly Loudermilk from BuildHR 00:23:08 David Oliva of RD Appliance Raising prices a lot. Being a great tech doesn't make you a great business owner Distinguishing yourself by going upscale - appliance repair 00:25:03 Entrepreneur Ethos - Jarie Bolander and Mihir Shah 00:26:34 Field Harmony The best mistake: forgetting that other people aren't you. 00:28:02 The Turo Story… and the experience! 00:35:24 SBS Outtro

Timing plays a critical role in the success of your business. When you launch your products, when you hire new employees, and in the case of Jarie Bolander, when you publish your book. Join us this week on the Small Business Show as we meet Jarie to discuss his new book,The Entrepreneur Ethos along with his good friend, Mihir Shah CEO of Drobo. Listen in and hear why Jarie felt compelled to create a roadmap for entrepreneurial success by building more ethical, inclusive and resilient companies. We also have a bonus today with Mihir Shah adding his comments to the discussion about the "why" of being an entrepreneur and how stepping in to solve problems can be rewarding far beyond any financial gains. Listen to the show, then join us on the Small Business Support Group to ask more questions and to add your voice to the discussion! Chapters/Timestamps: 00:00:00 Small Business Show #149 for Wednesday, December 13, 2017 00:02:17 Mihir Shah – from VC to CEO… always turning things around 00:03:32 It's fun to strategize, but more fun to be hands-on 00:04:25 Jarie Bolander – the classic, patently-unemployable entrepreneur 00:06:17 The Entrepreneur Ethos 00:07:45 What's the “why?” behind being an entrepreneur – Speak your truth 00:09:33 “If you want to be the best entrepreneur in the world, you need to aspire to the ethos” 00:10:44 The importance of timing - Patience vs. Procrastination 00:12:18 “I've always wanted to run my own business” 00:13:24 Failure is an option, but never the end result 00:14:03 SPONSOR: TextExpander.com/podcast gets you 20% off your first year 00:17:28 SPONSOR: Storyblocks.com/sbs gets you their Triple Bundle for just $149 00:19:36 Always stepping on landmines and learning how to diffuse them 00:22:39 The Drobo 5C – first USB-C product of its kind in the marketplace 00:23:56 The meeting of two minds, focusing on the positive 00:27:21 Unacceptable behavior is (finally) being called out 00:29:36 Stay away from the hardware business 00:32:23 Self-awareness matters! 00:35:33 Focusing on how to grow “You” Founders Network 00:39:34 SBS149 Outtro The Entrepreneur Ethos theDailyMBA.com A gift from Mihir and Jarie: visit DroboStore.com and use code SmallBiz10 for 10% off

Mihir Shah, CEO of Drobo joins me to discuss storage solutions for photographers and their new Drobo 5N2 — a network-attached storage device that essentially becomes your own personal DropBox.

Dr. Spencer Gaines writer, motivational speaker, organizational consultant, and life coach who resides in Jacksonville, Florida. He holds a double Doctorate in the fields of Organization leadership and Human Capital Development. He also holds a Master's Degree in Conflict Resolution with specializations in both Culture and Diversity and Organizational Systems. Dr. Gaines has over twenty-five years of real world experience in these fields Walter Wise Marketing Strategist, Revenue Growth and Lead Generation Specialist, Executive Coach and CEO at the BPI Strategy Group. His target market is high tech CEOs of businesses between $2m and $25m and small businesses that are trying to sell into the Federal Government space but are not having success. He is the author of "Getting Back to Basics, Effective Marketing Strategies to Grow Your Business in Today's Brutal Economy" a Marketing Strategy book Mihir Shah currently the CEO of popular data storage company Drobo and is leading the company back to its roots of being the core data storage solution for creatives and individuals. Shah is an experienced technology executive and investor For more information go to MoneyForLunch.com. Connect with Bert Martinez on Facebook. Connect with Bert Martinez on Twitter. Need help with your business? Contact Bert Martinez. Have Bert Martinez speak at your event!