Hardware Alley is a one-day celebration of hardware start ups both young and old.
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.
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.
"There is a foment happening," said Andrew Feldman, the chief executive at SeaMicro, a hardware start-up that hung up its shingle last week.
As the "maker" movement takes root, the one-person hardware start-up is blossoming thanks to cheap workspace, shared use of high-tech tools and crowdsourced fundingBack to Earth After four months on "Mars" (as recreated in Hawaii) our correspondent gets back to Earth.
Traditionally, venture capitalists are skittish about putting money into hardware start-ups because it is so complicated.
FORTUNE Hardware Start-Ups Are a Tougher Sell | Venture capitalists tend to be less comfortable with start-ups that make physical hardware, Bloomberg News reports.
By 2014 it will be huge".The hope is that as mobile e-commerce booms, it will boost software and hardware start-ups.
