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Understanding the Regulatory Process throughout your next Hardware Product Design

The Startup Magazine

Designing new hardware products that have a positive impact on customers is no small feat. There are several elements that go into hardware product design that taps an unaddressed customer need, has the customer WOW factor, and succeeds long term in the market. Get familiar with ensuring safety and minimizing product interference.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Looking for startups building new interpretable models or tools to explain the output of existing models LLMs for manual back office processes in legacy enterprises – LLMs allow whole categories of manual processes to be automated in ways that weren’t possible until recently.

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Apple Vision Pro – Tech in the Search of a Market

Steve Blank

I got a preview of PhotoCD when I was the head of marketing at SuperMac , a supplier of hardware and software for graphics professionals. You dropped off your film at a film processor and instead of just getting physical prints of your pictures they would scan the film, and burn them onto a Compact Disc. would want to use it.

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3 Key Steps for a Successful Backup Strategy

The Startup Magazine

Hardware solutions like external hard drives and storage appliances are generally quite easy to use, but using backup software is very important because it’s versatile and it provides added capabilities. Establishing Clear Guidelines for Safe Data Storage .

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Today’s opportunities in enterprise SaaS

Version One Ventures

Given the current public struggle of tech-enabled services, marketplaces, hardware and DTC companies, enterprise SaaS also feels like VC’s most favourite investment category right now. We often see one category filled with dozens of start-ups competing with a similar product for the same customers.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Of course both companies use their platform to increase user lock-in which indirectly helps their core revenue streams of advertising (in Facebook’s case) and hardware sales (for Apple). The whole category was about $6B in revenue in FY2011 but the vast majority of that was music. Apple generated nearly $130B in revenue in 2011.

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First Mover Fallacy

Agile VC

Wait For Complementary Technologies to Mature - Apple didn’t pioneer the smartphone but obviously the iPhone rightly deserves credit for defining the category and making it a global mass market. And at the end of the day most great entrepreneurs are focused on trying to build enduring, category defining companies.

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