We sat through 24 hours straight of hot-rod hacking at the Hackathon and now we're preparing for the main show and, most important, the brand new Hardware Alley where we'll have loads of great hardware start-ups for you guys to check out.
Well, that's about to change because we're now running Hardware Alley, a one day exhibition of some of the coolest hardware start-ups in NY and beyond.
Hosain Rahman, C.E.O. of Jawbone, a hardware start-up that makes slick Bluetooth speaker systems and headsets, said Apple's influence on design set a standard for who could enter the hardware start-up world.
Now, he's teaming up with an entrepreneur, Jason Johnson, to work on a new hardware start-up called August.
Traditionally, venture capitalists are skittish about putting money into hardware start-ups because it is so complicated.
Specialized hardware systems like SeaMicro's, and that of Schooner Information Technology, another hardware start-up, have appeared alongside equally specialized software, like Project Voldemort, Cassandra, CouchDB and MongoDB.
By 2014 it will be huge".The hope is that as mobile e-commerce booms, it will boost software and hardware start-ups.
"There is a foment happening," said Andrew Feldman, the chief executive at SeaMicro, a hardware start-up that hung up its shingle last week.
