“You realize there’s a formula to starting a business, and there are steps you can follow to make sure you scale your business effectively.” –Ian McCullough, co-founder of Giant Cardboard Robots Jason Lentz, co-founder of…

Bijan is a senior consultant and co-founder of Symphony Consulting, a management consulting firm located in Sunnyvale, California that specializes in sourcing, procurement and supply chain management. This article originally appeared in the Symphony quarterly newsletter.

This week, we are reviewing Arena PartsList and sharing a variety of ways it makes circuit design, prototyping and BOM building easy. Today, we are discussing how PartsList can be used to pull availability and cost information for components in your BOM. If you’ve ever designed…