Hardware

Software-Enabled-Hardware and Hardware-as-a-Service business models

GoPro — Good and Bad Karma.

GoPro has been a truly amazing one-hit wonder. Unfortunately it remained a one-hit wonder with its wearable…

DeepTech/FrontierTech is finding home among VCs

For decades traditional venture capital firms’ partnerships were built around three broad specialties:

1. Enterprise (infrastructure and software)
2. Consumer (internet and mobile)

Hardware is hard: some lessons

There is a lot of chatter once again in blogosphere and twitter that hardware is hard. Every time a prominent hardware startup fails, this discussion comes up. Whether it’s Quirky or Pebble, or the latest casualty: Lily Camera.

DeepTech/FrontierTech investing — interesting dynamics at play

Some thoughts on evolving hardware/deeptech landscape.

Some thoughts below on interesting and evolving hardware/deeptech investing landscape.

Hardware is not ‘software wrapped in plastic’

This past weekend I was going through a Board deck for a hardware consumer device company which aims to provide an amazing experience & UI/UX to its customers. Company still remains in stealth, but something popped out at me as I went through all the…

Let’s connect at @SxSW. And talk hardware, robotics, drones, satellites, imaging, data…

I will be joining a whole bunch of Boston/MIT SxSW attendees today on an early morning JetBlue flight to Austin. I will be there from Friday through Tuesday.