Wall Street Wants To 3D-Print $$$: How-To Exploit Capitalism For 3DP Fun & Profit

Yep, 3DP Has Arrived: The Stock Market Now Thinks It’s A Business, Analysts Are Projecting Hockey-Stick Curves & Your Mother Wants Your Help With Her Garden-Gnome CAD File…

 

Your Mother's Garden Gnome Scanned Not "Built" In Software?---This year, MakerBot plans to release its Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner: you Mom may NOT have to create anymore Gnomic CAD files...

Your Mother’s Garden Gnome Scanned, Not “Built” In Software?—This year, MakerBot plans to release its Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner: you Mom may NOT have to create anymore Gnomic CAD files…

OK! Wall Street is now becoming attuned to—and exploitive of—the nascent 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing industrial segment. AND, you can profit from Wall Street’s effort to commercialize 3DP. As well as having fun doing it. (The fun part stems from your exploitation of mostly free Wall-Streeter analysis: bemuse and amuse yourself while leveraging the “haves” to become a “have.”)

It’s not that Wall Street necessarily owns the best 3DP knowledge. It’s that—in their on-going Streeter effort to put client money where there mouth is—they are following long-proven scripts of capitalist-art storytelling. The Street companies are offering up the classic narrative of The Hero/Heroine Arc.  The Client—with the Street’s help—overcomes the adversity of the new and mysterious 3DP Market, garners (prints?) a pot of Gold and gets the (laser-sintered?) Girl/Boy.

Yeah, commercial fairy tales are marvelous vehicles of “newbie” instruction. They can put you to sleep (comforting you) or keep you awake (terrorizing you). And, like good stories, they can teach you how to act in the real world. To stay in your comfort zone, get a much information as you can about your 3DP interests—regardless of how you’re playing the rapid evolution of 3D Printing.

The Hot New Goldrush of 3DP Has A Long History: Consider Levi’s Morality Tale…

Many of you have already been following us here. So, you know that 3DP is an “instant success”—after a mere 30 years + of engineering and commercial evolution.

Regardless, a lot more resources are now being invested in following, understanding and showcasing the latest “doings” in 3DP. (Much of this Street curatorial effort—as we kids know—has the transparently ulterior motive of enabling curator profits from those curation endeavors, in one form or another.)

At the Goldrush, maybe you should sell picks and shovels. Eschew panning for gold and empower those gold miners. Think Levi Strauss selling riveted work pants of Serge de Nimes to 49ers: voila, the long-wearing “gold” of denim pants—or blue jeans.

After a fashion, we at NYC3DP are in the 3DP “picks and shovels” business. We’re providing the tools that you can use to go prospecting for 3DP gold. Like many of the Wall Street analysts now newly expert in the 3D-Printing industry, the curated knowledge you’re accessing on this site—and in our “This Week in NYC3DP” eNewsletter—is free.

Nothing “ulterior” here. From our launch, we’ve been explaining our business plan and model to all of you who are interested enough to listen…

The Freemium Model & Commercial And Commonweal Betterment

We’re giving it away. As our tagline proclaims: “Building Community Via 3D Printing.”

Our immediate goal—or gold—is coalescing a community of interested 3DPers and 3DP-associated organizations here in Metro New York City. Further along—and not too much further along—we can see extending the geography of our community to the rest of New York State.

NYC3DP IS a for-profit enterprise. At some point—appropriate to the real interests of our aggregated and integrated community—we will offer monetization products, services and/or events that will present compelling ROI for our self-selecting participants.

Regardless, our NYC3DP focus will be on community—however that “geography” is ultimately defined by its “citizens”—commercial and commonweal betterment. Yours first, ours second: mutual and meaningful.

How I Signed Up To Receive Wall-Street 3DP Analysis: Commentators Have To Be Good-Source Ecumenical…

In covering 3DP in and for New York, I’m always looking for new and better knowledge resources. And, I’m forever cruising the Internet on the hunt for the best sources of appropriate experience and expertise.

Today, I stumbled on a “Wall Street” (stock market and financial) analysis site called Seeking Alpha. (Full disclosure: I own no stock and recommend none.) ((Full confusion: is “seeking alpha” an arcane term of art on Wall Street?)) “Stumbled on” really means I linked to it from a 3DP-related site. That usually means I’m working from some other resource’s considered opinion of what is useful. And, then I get to apply my own reasoning and curation on your behalf.

According to CrunchBase, Seeking Alpha “is the premier website for actionable stock market opinion and analysis, and vibrant, intelligent finance discussion.” Hmmm. Pretty heavy praise. Is any site “THE premier” for anything? Then—a bit skeptical—I found Seeking Alpha’s article on Wikipedia was full of solid corroborating connections. Like distribution partnerships with lots of on-air and online financial players. Further: “Nielsen Analytics found its web site to be the most widely read among investors and financial professionals.” “The company reportedly has over 5 million unique users per month.” Three or four current awards from business and financial mags. Etc. Etc.

Forced To Choose Stocks Of Interest, I Went (Mostly) With The Current Biggies In 3DP…

Okay, okay. I wanted to read the bulk of a Seeking Alpha article on 3DP and other new techs—AND I had to subscribe to do so. Plus, I had to provide at least five stocks Alpha insisted on tracking for me. (As before, the more sources of well-curated information you can cross-reference, the closer to knowledge you will be…)

The article—and, yes, I recommend it to you—is “M2M, 3D Printing And Augmented Reality: Promising Hi-Tech Sectors With Room To Grow” by Seeking Alpha contributor Arthur Goldgaber.

AND, what stocks did I pick? Six of them: 3D Systems (DDD); Stratasys (SSYS); ExOne (XONE); Autodesk (ADSK); Organovo Holdings (ONVO); AND Apple (AAPL). This last because Apple has been the most Techreative company of the last generation. I don’t think they’re done yet. And—like Microsoft now with native 3DP drivers in Windows 8.1—Apple could quickly become a player in 3D Printing. Are you listening—those of you Apple-ites who are seeking to channel Steve Jobs??!

Do We Need To Create An Oscar-Like Icon To Represent The 3DP FRENZY?!?

I’m expecting some ironic and artistic maker to 3DP (OK, let’s make my “3DP” neologism into a  verb) her or his concept of our current 3D-Printing FRENZY here in Gotham. NOW, what would THAT look like…??

C’mon Back!

LAND

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