Advanced Concepts
Teardown: Sonos One
The Sonos One speaker is the flagship smart Alexa-enabled speaker. Sonos is hoping it will boost the the…
September 8, 2021 · JacobAuthor: Jacob
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Advanced Concepts
What Cracking Open a Sonos One Tells Us About the Sonos IPO
For eight years, a war has been raging among a number of unlikely players. This bloodless technology battle…
September 8, 2021 · JacobAdvanced Concepts
What Hardware Startups Can Learn from Pebble
Crossing the Chasm Many consumer hardware startups think being first to market with breakthrough technology will make them successful.…
September 8, 2021 · JacobAdvanced Concepts
What Nest teaches us about the emotion of hardware
Most startups proposition their products as obvious, rational purchases. Most of them are lying. Hardware purchases have two drivers…
September 8, 2021 · JacobAdvanced Concepts
Why Bolt Isn’t An Accelerator
Petnet (one of our early portfolio companies) just announced their next round of major financing. Some of our favorite…
September 8, 2021 · JacobAdvanced Concepts
Why We Exploded Hardware and Put it on Our Walls
Space is important. One of my favorite things about startup culture is that tech companies understand the power…
September 8, 2021 · JacobAdvanced Concepts
Will your hardware start-up make money ?
We talk to lots of founders who underestimate how hard it is to make money selling consumer hardware,…
September 8, 2021 · JacobAdvanced Concepts
Certification and Regulatory Requirements for Product Developers
If you’re designing a physical product, you have an important responsibility to ensure your creation will be a…
September 8, 2021 · JacobGeneral Concepts
Touchpad
Also called a glide pad, glide point, pressure sensitive tablet, or trackpad, a touchpad is an input device on laptops and some keyboards. It allows the user to move a cursor with…
September 8, 2021 · JacobGeneral Concepts
Modem
A modem may refer to any of the following: 1. A modem or broadband modem is a hardware device that connects a computer or router to a broadband network. For example,…
September 8, 2021 · Jacob