«Our advice to early
stage hardware companies is focus on five things — validating and articulating the pain they eliminate or problem they solve, benefits versus features and being laser focused on tech product development, cultivating a community of believers and early customers, efficiently using their cash by leveraging experts and community hubs like makerspaces and reflecting great leadership and a community mindset.»
Not exact matches
The big, tantalizing exits in
hardware from
companies such as Beats, Nest and Oculus have kept venture investors, especially with seed -
stage funds, interested in
hardware.
Looks like the Blackberry is
staging a comeback as TCL, the
company's new
hardware partner, officially announced the upcoming new - generation Blackberry smartphones.
The idea — started two years ago — was to provide early -
stage companies a place to not just collaborate on ideas and share services, but to have space to actually build the energy
hardware of tomorrow.
The
company says the
hardware inside includes a full - range speaker for vocal and treble notes, a subwoofer for bass, and an omnidirectional two -
stage diffuser to spread the sound throughout the room.
After several weeks of rumors and leaks, the event is finally on the
stage and the
company has announced its new
hardware line.
When Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the
stage on Wednesday during the
company's Pixel 2
hardware event, he repeated familiar talking points about the shift from a mobile to an artificial intelligence - dominated world.
The
company's ambitions this year are massive, and set the
stage for their development plans in the years and decades to come: a unified design language that works well and looks good on all screens, any size, across varying
hardware specifications.
Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky is expected to join the startup Y Combinator as an advising partner to early -
stage companies on
hardware development.