To produce in China you need to be spending at least $50,000 - $100,000, otherwise they won't deal with you. Screaming Circuits also does small runs of 10-20 wh

To produce in China you need to be spending at least $50,000 - $100,000, otherwise they won't deal with you. Screaming Circuits also does small runs of 10-20 which is enough to do certification, programming, and testing. The bureaucracy involved in electronics is why I got out, I had to close my last company because of new idiotic regulations passed by Congress that skyrocketed my costs. The certification process is pretty easy if you have a partner in China, they will take care of it for you. The hard part of selling is getting into the sales channels, most large retailers require whats called a Dun & Bradstreet Rating (a credit report for business). It will take quite a while to get and you must already have a couple million in sales. Target, Wal-Mart, and Best-Buy all operate the same way which makes getting started a little difficult. As for learning electronics, I am self taught. My education was in Mechanical Eng, Biomedical Eng, and a MBA, while I had a couple electronics and programming classes most of what I know was self taught through trial and error. Then if there was a device I wasn't comfortable designing, I'd hire it out.