Hardware by the Numbers (Part 1: Team + Prototyping)

Great article for anyone building a hardware startup. Although in my opinion a fundamental flaw on the patent statement.

I do agree you have to be very cautious if you want to spend resources on patent and how much effort you want to place. But the advice of just pushing it out for later is not really practical. The moment you make your invention public by showing your demo you can't file a patent anymore as it becomes public knowledge.

Filing provisional patent assuming written up in legalese language, not the 1 page word document can be a possible middle ground.