Collaborate Disseminate
Who hasn’t dreamed of pulling together some gadget in their garage and turning it into a big business? Of course, most gadgets today have a CPU in them, and Arm CPUs power just about any kind of embedded device you can think of. If you just want to use a …read more
Cleanly, a snazzy laundry startup, promised NYC nurses and doctors “the gift of clean laundry.” Instead, it created a COVID-19 underwear catastrophe. Continue reading ‘WHERE IS THE REST OF MY LAUNDRY??’
In episode 99 of our April monthly show: Apple and Google’s controversial efforts to create contact tracing technology, fighting COVID-19 criminal activity, and what the new normal means for startup companies. ** Show notes and links mentioned on… Continue reading Contact Tracing Controversy, Fighting COVID-19 Criminal Activity
Building and launching a start-up company is a challenge in itself. Securing it when it is new, young and vulnerable is something else. It’s very necessary but also hard if you don’t know what you’re doing. And can you afford a consultant in the early … Continue reading Securing a business from scratch
SE Labs has been working at the core of the cyber security industry since its launch in 2016. We work with all of the major developers of IT security products as well as their main customers and even investors looking to increase their chances when bet… Continue reading SE Labs Annual Report 2019
By Efrat Silberhaft One year ago, I was working as the sole designer in a small e-commerce startup. When the company shut down, I had to start looking for a new job. I decided to leave the startup world. What I didn’t know is that my next step wo… Continue reading From E-Commerce to Enterprise Employee: How I Overcame my Fears and Doubts
Join us on Wednesday 10 July 2019 at noon Pacific for the Manufacturing in China Hack Chat with Jesse Vincent!
It started out where many great stories start: as a procrastination project. Open source developer Jesse Vincent decided that messing around with a new keyboard design was a better thing …read more
Join us on Wednesday 5 June 2019 at noon Pacific for the Disrupting Cell Biology Hack Chat with Incuvers!
A lot of today’s most successful tech companies have creation myths that include a garage in some suburban neighborhood where all the magic happened. Whether there was literally a garage is …read more
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For David Cowan, the tipping point was a cyberattack from Anonymous. Cowan, a venture capitalist at Bessemer Venture Partners, had spent years asking startup founders what they planned to do if hackers targeted their business. Often, the founders on the other side of the boardroom would shrug and say, “We don’t hold any personal information, so they don’t need to come after us.” That changed, he said, after the email marketing company SendGrid was hit in 2013 with a denial-of-service attack that ultimately caused about 20 percent of the young company’s clients to walk away, not too long after Bessemer had led a $21 million funding round for the company The attack occurred after an employee, Adria Richards, publicly complained that a developer from the gaming company Playhaven made sexual remarks in the audience at the 2013 PyCon tech conference. Playhaven fired the employee, infuriating an online mob that sent Richards death threats. Anonymous got involved too, […]
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“The prototype was $12 in parts, so I’ll sell it for $15.” That is your recipe for disaster, and why so many Kickstarter projects fail. The Bill of Materials (BOM) is just a subset of the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), and if you aren’t selling your product for more than your COGS, you will lose money and go out of business.
We’ve all been there; we throw together a project using parts we have laying around, and in our writeup we list the major components and their price. We ignore all the little bits of wire and screws and …read more