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Any1 working on/has a "hardware" tech startup?

3 pointsrokhayakebe13 comments

Hardware is, err, hard. Scaling to the masses means reliability engineering and thoughts given to logistics, manufacturing, etc.

Getting a version 1 out the door can be extremely expensive. Perhaps the revolution in China is changing this, making it much easier to build things in 10s and 100s.

And any interesting product will also have software. This makes it a superset of software startups.

I think a better question would be: What parts of the hardware market are suited for startups, given the various capital needs and industry landscape. I'd actually be very interested to hear from people about that.

I've been thinking about a cheap, scalable, multi-gigabit server, complete with about 40 gigs of ram, tcp offload engines and session logging. Prices on all of these parts have gone down and it might be something to pursue. Who needs a netscalar?!?

nope. but bug labs is.. http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2006/05/introducing_bug.h... http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/07/30/bugLabsInitialRe...

99% of entrepreneurs are working on web apps. Is there any1 here whoz tech startup involves building hardware.

One of the startups we funded this summer is working on hardware.

That is cool. Waiting for Demo Day

Before I resigned, I used to work in a hardware startup: i-conserve (i-conserve.com) that I founded. Basically, i-conserve is working on a wireless sensor suite using ZigBee to measure, control, and conserve energy.

Why do you ask?

No particular reasons. I just think there is a huge opportunity is the field and they usually require more capital. And I want to see someone go against the titans of hardware.

i work in a startup that has hardware components. that said, we're not "building" hardware, we're mixing off the shelf stuff.

Yes.

yes

I'm doing a plain old piece of software for a start up. You know, the kind you install onto your machine and it integrates nicely with the operating system. Yea, I miss those days too. Sorry, I want to do hardware in the future though.

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