Zak Homuth of Upverter writes:
He gives 5 reasons:...I spoke on a panel at a conference in San Francisco hosted by Lemnos Labs a very forward thinking hardware startup accelerator that like Upverter has a lot invested in the resurgence of hardware as a startup genre. The topic of the conference was "Hardware 2.0: The future of hardware" and it got me thinking about what changed. What is different between Hardware 1.0 - the Apples, Intels and the Sun Microsystems of the the world - and today?
- Hardware as a Portal
- Democratization of Tools
- Rapid Prototyping & China
- Pre-Sales & Crowd-Funding
Concluding:
- 1 Billion Cellphones
....it's always been harder to start a hardware startup. It takes a different kind of founder. A different kind of tenacity. But these five forces are levelling the playing field. Lower barriers, and better incentives mean hugely more startups. It means more problems become solvable, and more aspiring entrepreneurs build real companies instead of bullshit social coupon sharing apps.More here
