This document discusses strategies for hardware startups. It outlines 12 types of "wares" that hardware startups should avoid, such as "funware" with no business model or "vaporware" that can't be built. It also discusses challenges with scaling hardware, the need to validate problems before solutions, and strategies for funding different stages. The document promotes HAX, an accelerator program to help hardware startups succeed from prototype to business.
Laurence McCahill, design lead and co-founder of Spook Studio, spills the beans on the Lean Startup and Lean UX movements, which bring a groundbreaking approach to product development, and what it means for founders, managers and designers/developers.
For a more in-depth article read my introduction to lean over at .net http://www.netmagazine.com/features/introduction-lean
Lean Startup: How Development Looks Different at a StartupAbby Fichtner
How does development look different at a startup where learning (rather than working software) is our most important measure of progress?
Lean Startup is about creating companies with a BIG VISION, where we want to change the world and do something really significant. It's a methodology developed by Eric Ries to combine Agile Development with Customer Development so that we can be disciplined about how we create our startups. Come learn the concepts behind Lean Startup and discover how development looks different when you're creating things that nobody else done before.
[Slides from my ScrumClub Presentation (December 9, 2010)]
Use Lean Startup Techniques on a Remote Team by William Donnell - The Lean St...Lean Startup Co.
A lot of distributed companies use Lean Startup techniques for product development. But it's challenging to successfully run customer development and cross-functional experiments with remote colleagues. William Donnell, lead design and UX specialist at Sodium Halogen, teaches the creative techniques his team uses for very effective Lean Startup approaches on a virtual team.
Laurence McCahill, design lead and co-founder of Spook Studio, spills the beans on the Lean Startup and Lean UX movements, which bring a groundbreaking approach to product development, and what it means for founders, managers and designers/developers.
For a more in-depth article read my introduction to lean over at .net http://www.netmagazine.com/features/introduction-lean
Lean Startup: How Development Looks Different at a StartupAbby Fichtner
How does development look different at a startup where learning (rather than working software) is our most important measure of progress?
Lean Startup is about creating companies with a BIG VISION, where we want to change the world and do something really significant. It's a methodology developed by Eric Ries to combine Agile Development with Customer Development so that we can be disciplined about how we create our startups. Come learn the concepts behind Lean Startup and discover how development looks different when you're creating things that nobody else done before.
[Slides from my ScrumClub Presentation (December 9, 2010)]
Use Lean Startup Techniques on a Remote Team by William Donnell - The Lean St...Lean Startup Co.
A lot of distributed companies use Lean Startup techniques for product development. But it's challenging to successfully run customer development and cross-functional experiments with remote colleagues. William Donnell, lead design and UX specialist at Sodium Halogen, teaches the creative techniques his team uses for very effective Lean Startup approaches on a virtual team.
Lean Media: Running Lean Programs For Multiple Media Brands, Kimberly Hicks, ...Lean Startup Co.
Media brands transitioned to digital at differing rates, each brand with a different need. As a result, technology was siloed, costs were duplicated and a unified methodology was non-existent.Simultaneously, consumers became accustomed to anytime anywhere digital access. In response, media technology had to be agile and responsive. These are some of the issues that Kimberly Hicks faced as the VP of Product Management at Viacom. She joins us at the Enterprise Summit to talk about how she motivated her team to think like a technology company and apply Lean Startup practices to innovate and solve some of their biggest challenges.
If you work in product management, product development or just in technology or software at all, you’ve probably heard of the term ‘MVP’ or Minimum Viable Product. Everyone is using it these days. In this talk I'll explain what an MVP is, why I have a love and hate relationship with it, and how to apply it to your product development.
Lean Startup - by Hristo Neychev (bring your ideas to life faster, smarter, a...Hristo Neychev
Lean Startup ideas, trends, and best practices through the lens of my experience in four industries, three startups, and two continents.
Lean Startup methodologies are applicable to both small and large organisation focused on creating new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
Spotify Running: Lessons learned from building a ‘Lean Startup’ inside a big ...Brendan Marsh
This is the story of how a small, cross-functional team (with only 1 developer!) worked closely with our customers on a weekly basis to discover the right thing to build, before we built anything and eventually shipped an innovative new feature that was praised by customers and the press alike. If you’ve read the Lean Startup, have been inspired by their stories and wonder “wow that’s really inspiring, now how the heck do I actually DO this?!”, then this presentation is for you. (Here’s a hint: It ain’t easy, but is doable!)
How To (Not) Open Source - Javazone, Oslo 2014gdusbabek
Releasing an open source project while maintaining a shipping product is hard! Different behaviors, attitudes and actions can help or hinder your cause; and they are not always obvious.
The Blueflood distributed metrics engine was released as open source software by Rackspace in August 2012. In the succeeding months the team had to strike a manageable balance between the challenges of growing a community, being good open source stewards, and maintaining a shipping product for Rackspace. Find out what worked, what did not work, and the lessons that can be applied as you endeavor to take your project out into the open.
In this presentation you will learn about strategies for releasing open source products, pitfalls to avoid, and the potential benefits of moving more of your development out in the open.
We have also made a few realizations about the community growing up around metrics. It is still young, and there are problems that come with that youth. I'll talk about some things we can do to make a better software ecosystem.
Cross Device Optimisation - Google Analytics ShortcutsCraig Sullivan
In this session, we explain how to mine GA for broken device experiences, flows, funnel blocks and more... Using a new grid tool we've developed, you can pull multi-dimensional segmented funnel and metric data from Google Analytics - we explain how it works, why you need it and what problems it solves. Find where your site is leaking money through data
The 6 Mindsets of Red Ocean Disruption Teams: Tools for Rapidly Discovering a...Rod King, Ph.D.
http://goo.gl/TBDCfi
***
Why do people, organizations, societies, and other living systems die?
There’s only one answer as to why an object dies. My hypothesis is that living organisms die or become extinct when their supersystems (ecosystems) fail to create and manage Red Ocean Disruption teams that rapidly discover and solve BUMPs. In simple terms, organisms die because of “non-problem solving.” The late science philosopher, Karl Popper, expressed this point succinctly when he said, “All life is problem solving.” Popper was a strong proponent of the Scientific Method of problem solving.
Unlike in Science and Engineering, the fields of Business Planning and Strategy have made limited use of the Scientific Method. It’s no wonder that about 9 out of 10 startups fail or prematurely die. To iterate, startups are failing because they do not rapidly discover and solve BUMPs. In other words, failing or failed startups do not have teams that systematically and rapidly discover as well as solve BUMPs. But, there’s a revolution underway in the startup world … a revolution that focuses on helping startups to rapidly discover and solve BUMPs. The pioneer of the startup revolution is the “Lean Startup Movement.” Silicon Valley is the epicenter of the Lean Startup Movement.
So what’s the approach advocated by the Lean Startup Movement? As with any revolution in progress, there is as yet no standard approach that a startup can use to rapidly discover and solve BUMPs under conditions of great uncertainty. However, there is consensus that every Lean Startup must continuously use the problem solving cycle of the Scientific Method: hypothesis formulation; sample testing; validated learning. Nevertheless, two related but different methodologies stand clear in the world of Lean Startups: Steve Blank’s Customer Development Stack and Eric Ries’s Lean Startup Method. The question is: How effective is the Customer Development Stack or Lean Startup Method in rapidly discovering and solving BUMPs under conditions of great uncertainty?
Although I’ve not formally investigated the effectiveness of tools in the world of Lean Startups, there’s a lot of anecdotal evidence that, compared to the traditional approach of Waterfall Business Planning, the Customer Development Stack and Lean Startup method are faster and more cost effective at identifying and solving BUMPs. In spite of signs of their early success, the Customer Development Stack and Lean Startup method are neglecting a critical building block in the successful evolution of any organization. And that building block is “team:” team formation/synergy, deployment, and management. Shouldn’t we first ask, “What are the problem solving styles of members of
My keynote from the UX South Africa 2014 conference in Cape Town, South Africa
It's a look at the state of play including:
- It's still easy to find poor website UX in South Africa
- Informing digital strategy by making and launching things
- Problems that executives of traditionally non-digital companies face as software slowly eats the word - and some solutions: Proactive research, digital product management, agile...
- Some of the skills and talents that unicorn UX designers need to have
UX SA Conference 2015: Innovation Toolkit Phil Barrett
Uber, AirBnB, Wayz, SnapScan, WhatsApp, SnapChat… Those are some of the early winners in the wave digital change that’s sweeping the world. Those companies have innovated further, quicker than competitors and they’ve done it so well that the services they deliver seem “obvious” in hindsight. But to compete with them, and whatever comes next, your organisation is going to have to do something even more awesome.
It might not be very pretty.
Leading an organisation through the realities of innovation is hard. Organisations are typically well adapted to doing what they do, they way they’ve always done it. Real, transformative innovation asks them to leave that behind. It feels equal parts crazy and terrifying. It needs focus, nerve, and yet also heaps of humility.
It helps if you know where you are, secure the time and support you need to succeed, use good ideation methods and conduct proper experiments.
In this 90 minute session we’ll draw on techniques from the world of lean startup and design thinking and look at:
- Some words you can use to get managers to tackle innovation
- How to structure and negotiate the right space for innovation to succeed in your organisation
- Techniques to maximise the chances of generating amazing ideas
- How to deal with differences of opinion and prioritise the right choices
- How to think and talk about experiments and failure
Best practices for crowdfunding your hardware startup in 2017, collected from over 70 campaigns run by HAX portfolio companies, including 10 who raised over $1 million.
Lean Media: Running Lean Programs For Multiple Media Brands, Kimberly Hicks, ...Lean Startup Co.
Media brands transitioned to digital at differing rates, each brand with a different need. As a result, technology was siloed, costs were duplicated and a unified methodology was non-existent.Simultaneously, consumers became accustomed to anytime anywhere digital access. In response, media technology had to be agile and responsive. These are some of the issues that Kimberly Hicks faced as the VP of Product Management at Viacom. She joins us at the Enterprise Summit to talk about how she motivated her team to think like a technology company and apply Lean Startup practices to innovate and solve some of their biggest challenges.
If you work in product management, product development or just in technology or software at all, you’ve probably heard of the term ‘MVP’ or Minimum Viable Product. Everyone is using it these days. In this talk I'll explain what an MVP is, why I have a love and hate relationship with it, and how to apply it to your product development.
Lean Startup - by Hristo Neychev (bring your ideas to life faster, smarter, a...Hristo Neychev
Lean Startup ideas, trends, and best practices through the lens of my experience in four industries, three startups, and two continents.
Lean Startup methodologies are applicable to both small and large organisation focused on creating new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
Spotify Running: Lessons learned from building a ‘Lean Startup’ inside a big ...Brendan Marsh
This is the story of how a small, cross-functional team (with only 1 developer!) worked closely with our customers on a weekly basis to discover the right thing to build, before we built anything and eventually shipped an innovative new feature that was praised by customers and the press alike. If you’ve read the Lean Startup, have been inspired by their stories and wonder “wow that’s really inspiring, now how the heck do I actually DO this?!”, then this presentation is for you. (Here’s a hint: It ain’t easy, but is doable!)
How To (Not) Open Source - Javazone, Oslo 2014gdusbabek
Releasing an open source project while maintaining a shipping product is hard! Different behaviors, attitudes and actions can help or hinder your cause; and they are not always obvious.
The Blueflood distributed metrics engine was released as open source software by Rackspace in August 2012. In the succeeding months the team had to strike a manageable balance between the challenges of growing a community, being good open source stewards, and maintaining a shipping product for Rackspace. Find out what worked, what did not work, and the lessons that can be applied as you endeavor to take your project out into the open.
In this presentation you will learn about strategies for releasing open source products, pitfalls to avoid, and the potential benefits of moving more of your development out in the open.
We have also made a few realizations about the community growing up around metrics. It is still young, and there are problems that come with that youth. I'll talk about some things we can do to make a better software ecosystem.
Cross Device Optimisation - Google Analytics ShortcutsCraig Sullivan
In this session, we explain how to mine GA for broken device experiences, flows, funnel blocks and more... Using a new grid tool we've developed, you can pull multi-dimensional segmented funnel and metric data from Google Analytics - we explain how it works, why you need it and what problems it solves. Find where your site is leaking money through data
The 6 Mindsets of Red Ocean Disruption Teams: Tools for Rapidly Discovering a...Rod King, Ph.D.
http://goo.gl/TBDCfi
***
Why do people, organizations, societies, and other living systems die?
There’s only one answer as to why an object dies. My hypothesis is that living organisms die or become extinct when their supersystems (ecosystems) fail to create and manage Red Ocean Disruption teams that rapidly discover and solve BUMPs. In simple terms, organisms die because of “non-problem solving.” The late science philosopher, Karl Popper, expressed this point succinctly when he said, “All life is problem solving.” Popper was a strong proponent of the Scientific Method of problem solving.
Unlike in Science and Engineering, the fields of Business Planning and Strategy have made limited use of the Scientific Method. It’s no wonder that about 9 out of 10 startups fail or prematurely die. To iterate, startups are failing because they do not rapidly discover and solve BUMPs. In other words, failing or failed startups do not have teams that systematically and rapidly discover as well as solve BUMPs. But, there’s a revolution underway in the startup world … a revolution that focuses on helping startups to rapidly discover and solve BUMPs. The pioneer of the startup revolution is the “Lean Startup Movement.” Silicon Valley is the epicenter of the Lean Startup Movement.
So what’s the approach advocated by the Lean Startup Movement? As with any revolution in progress, there is as yet no standard approach that a startup can use to rapidly discover and solve BUMPs under conditions of great uncertainty. However, there is consensus that every Lean Startup must continuously use the problem solving cycle of the Scientific Method: hypothesis formulation; sample testing; validated learning. Nevertheless, two related but different methodologies stand clear in the world of Lean Startups: Steve Blank’s Customer Development Stack and Eric Ries’s Lean Startup Method. The question is: How effective is the Customer Development Stack or Lean Startup Method in rapidly discovering and solving BUMPs under conditions of great uncertainty?
Although I’ve not formally investigated the effectiveness of tools in the world of Lean Startups, there’s a lot of anecdotal evidence that, compared to the traditional approach of Waterfall Business Planning, the Customer Development Stack and Lean Startup method are faster and more cost effective at identifying and solving BUMPs. In spite of signs of their early success, the Customer Development Stack and Lean Startup method are neglecting a critical building block in the successful evolution of any organization. And that building block is “team:” team formation/synergy, deployment, and management. Shouldn’t we first ask, “What are the problem solving styles of members of
My keynote from the UX South Africa 2014 conference in Cape Town, South Africa
It's a look at the state of play including:
- It's still easy to find poor website UX in South Africa
- Informing digital strategy by making and launching things
- Problems that executives of traditionally non-digital companies face as software slowly eats the word - and some solutions: Proactive research, digital product management, agile...
- Some of the skills and talents that unicorn UX designers need to have
UX SA Conference 2015: Innovation Toolkit Phil Barrett
Uber, AirBnB, Wayz, SnapScan, WhatsApp, SnapChat… Those are some of the early winners in the wave digital change that’s sweeping the world. Those companies have innovated further, quicker than competitors and they’ve done it so well that the services they deliver seem “obvious” in hindsight. But to compete with them, and whatever comes next, your organisation is going to have to do something even more awesome.
It might not be very pretty.
Leading an organisation through the realities of innovation is hard. Organisations are typically well adapted to doing what they do, they way they’ve always done it. Real, transformative innovation asks them to leave that behind. It feels equal parts crazy and terrifying. It needs focus, nerve, and yet also heaps of humility.
It helps if you know where you are, secure the time and support you need to succeed, use good ideation methods and conduct proper experiments.
In this 90 minute session we’ll draw on techniques from the world of lean startup and design thinking and look at:
- Some words you can use to get managers to tackle innovation
- How to structure and negotiate the right space for innovation to succeed in your organisation
- Techniques to maximise the chances of generating amazing ideas
- How to deal with differences of opinion and prioritise the right choices
- How to think and talk about experiments and failure
Best practices for crowdfunding your hardware startup in 2017, collected from over 70 campaigns run by HAX portfolio companies, including 10 who raised over $1 million.
How do you build hardware startups in 2015? Same questions, new answers. This presentation was first given at HAX 7 Demo Day and UC Berkeley in November 2015.
What's going on with robots? What's coming next? From drones to autonomous vehicles, service robots, social robots or toys, here is a fairly broad overview.
Question: who could turn down a $19T opportunity across billions of connected objects in all industries? Answer: most corporates and investors. Let's fix this!
HAX Is The World's Most Active Investor In Hardware Startups
- 200 investments
- In Shenzhen & San Francisco
- Consumer, Health, Industry, Enterprise (B2B & B2C)
- 50% US & CAN / 20% EU / 15% CN / !5% ROW
- Over 80 Kickstarters, 90% > $100k, 11 > $1m (Global Top 100)
- Follow-ons by Sequoia, Andressen-Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, GGV, etc.
Marcus Gosling, Highway1.io , @marceire
In mass-production, you only have one chance to get the product right. The in-flexibility and expense of the physical product supply-chain prohibits an experimental, iterative approach. Inspired by lean startup, hardware entrepreneurs are developing new tools and methodologies for exploring and validating their product ideas prior to mass manufacture. 3D printing and off-the-shelf development kits are being used to support rapid product iteration and low-volume early adopter sales. Existing commercial products are being hacked by entrepreneurs to prototype and explore completely new experiences. Prototypes are becoming instrumented to collect data on engagement and usage patterns in the field. Illustrated with case studies from the Highway1.io hardware startup accelerator this talk will share a range of emergent patterns and best practices in lean hardware development.
DevDay 2013 - Building Startups and Minimum Viable ProductsBen Hall
DevDay (http://devday.pl),
20th of September 2013, Kraków
Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4eTOvq2WmM&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLBMFXMTB7U74NdDghygvBaDcp67owVUUF
Presenter: Kaitlyn Witman, Rainfactory, Cofounder & Director of Product Marketing
Crowdfunding has exploded in the past few years as a way to quickly rally a community around a product. It's created a unique opportunity to pitch your story to millions of early adopters. Now, marketers at all levels are adapting this formula to launch all types of products large and small. The best campaigns come from a proven method, and all follow this unspoken format of storytelling. Dive in & dissect what makes each pitch successful. Crowdsource ideas and build a community. In this session, learn the art of crafting the perfect product pitch from a seasoned veteran of nearly 40 crowdfunding campaigns, 14 of which have raised over $1 million.
Backlog or Black Hole? How to Manage Massive BacklogsRachel Maxwell
Discover how to identify and fix a massive backlog.
When a backlog gets too big, it threatens productivity, quality, and innovation.
But there’s so much you can do to prevent — or fix — this common problem.
With this webinar, you'll discover:
-How to identify if you have a massive backlog issue.
-Common root causes of oversize backlogs.
-Concrete actions for regaining control of your backlog.
YOUNG 2016 Professione startupper: come fare del digitale la tua impresa Andrea Vaccarella
Introduction to startup and entrepreneurship, using the real case of Fluxedo, a company that develops mobile applications and platform to monitor social network. The presentation includes theory of entrepreneurship, from the business model canvas to useful links to track progress and real life examples of do's and dont's. Used during the 2016 YOUNG exhibition
What is 'deep tech' and what is unique about it from an investment perspective? SOSV shares the lessons learned from investing in over 800 startups, many in robotics, IoT, medtech, synthetic biology and more.
What is 'deep tech' and what is unique about it from an investment perspective? SOSV shares the lessons learned from investing in over 800 startups, many in robotics, IoT, medtech, synthetic biology and more.
What is 'deep tech' and what is unique about it from an investment perspective? SOSV shares the lessons learned from investing in over 800 startups, many in robotics, IoT, medtech, synthetic biology and more.
Building Deep Tech Startups Outside Silicon ValleyHAX
The resources you need can be distributed: for R&D, prototyping, production, financing and customers. Silicon Valley is an expensive option in most cases!
What Every Startup And Corporate Should Know About ExitsHAX
Startups: prepare -- Corporates: build your playbook!
Talk given at the Hello Tomorrow Summit in Paris in March 2019, inspired by the 50 speakers of the "Exit Masterclass" series we ran in 2018 in SF, NYC, London and Paris.
HAX Hardware Review - 1H 2018 Trends and OutlookHAX
The past year has been very active for hardware. IPOs, acquisitions (and some spectacular failures) have made the news. With advancements in deep tech and automation, connected technology in healthcare, homes and offices, hardware is changing the way people experience and improve life and the world around them.
This report is a summary of news from the hardware tech world; new movements we saw through working with startups, and some of our thoughts on the year ahead. A full copy of the report is available for download at: hax.co/hax-hardware-review-1H2018
Crazy cool or boring - what good hardware startups look likeHAX
The most spectacular or high tech might not be the best business. Boring and B2B is more often solving a real problem. We share a few examples from our robotics portfolio of startup trajectories.
The future will not look like the future of old - flying cars, jet packs and humanoid robots. Boring and invisible disruptions are on the way. Examples from the hardware world show that soon "A.I.-powered" will sound like "electric".
A Brief History of Venture Capital Innovation from 1946 to Today, from Sand Hill Rd to Startup Studios, Accelerators, Crowdfunding, AngelList and ICOs.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
4. HARDWARE RENAISSANCE
PROTOTYPING IS EASIER THAN EVER
Arduino / Pi / Spark / 3D printing / Sensors /
BLE / Smartphones / Cloud
SUPPLY CHAIN IS BETTER THAN EVER
– China (Shenzhen) has the whole chain
– Fast, Affordable, Scalable
MORE FUNDING
– KickStarter (250,000+ HW backers!),
IndieGoGo
– More VC & Angel money, acquisitions
5. BE A MASTER OF THE PROBLEM
What matters is the problem,
not the solution!
6. “The question is no
longer: can we make
it?
But: what can we
make
that’s worthwhile?”
Dr. Bjoern Hartmann
Interactive Device Design
Critical Making
HARDWARE TODAY
10. Startup Accelerator for Hardware
From Prototype to Business
In Shenzhen & San Francisco
HAXLR8R
11. 8 THINGS ABOUT HAX
1. 111 days
2. Shenzhen + San Francisco Demo Day
3. Up to $50k for 6%-8%
4. HAX team (DFM, EE, ID, sourcing) & 50+
mentors
5. 50 startups, 130+ founders
6. 60% Americas // 20% Europe // 20% Asia
7. IOT, wearables, robotics, etc.
8. 20+ crowdfunding campaigns, avg. $200k
12. FOUNDERS LEARN TO…
Position company & product
Buy on Taobao
Shop in Huaqiangbei
Source on Alibaba
Speak enough Mandarin
Prepare a DFM
Select factories
Manage production
Engage advisors
Work with media
Prepare for crowdfunding
Scale
Fundraise
Enjoy the journey!
20. LEAN HARDWARE PHILOSOPHY
1. Validate problem vs. Assume
2. Partner w/ factories vs. Abdicate
3. Fast to market vs. Long cycles
4. Capital effective vs. Capital
intensive
5. User backed vs. Venture
backed
21. 1. Validate problem vs. Assume
2. Partner w/ factories vs. Abdicate
3. Fast to market vs. Long cycles
4. Capital effective vs. Capital
intensive
5. User backed vs. Venture
backed
LEAN HARDWARE PHILOSOPHY
+ HAX Approach
Meaningful
Aligned with founders
23. 3 OLD MYTHS IN 1 SENTENCE
“China only makes
cheap stuff
at scale and
copies”
24. TODAY’S REALITY
• Your iPad
• Start from 1 unit
• IP is at risk if:
–Your product is trivial
–You pick the wrong
partner
–You’re already successful
25. THE COST OF NOT BEING IN CHINA
“You have to consider
the cost of not being
in China.”
Will Hart
Chief of Staff
Spark.io
(HAX 2)
26. WHAT ABOUT MY IP?
“Protection of IP can be
complex
manufacturing or
product, community,
and cloud based
services.”
Idan Beck
Founder
gTar
(HAX Fund)
27. KNOW-HOW
“Chinese factory
engineers master the
lost art of injection
molding.”
”On the factory floor
you solve problems
much faster, speaking
Bunnie Huang
Hardware Hacker
Bunnie Studios
(HAX Mentor)
28. WHY GO TO CHINA EARLY?
• Prototype better and faster
– PCBs overnight
– All the components you need
– Tools for prototyping
– “Lost art of injection molding”
– Design for manufacturing
– (much) Cheaper
• Build and scale fast
– Integrated supply chain
– Scale up from 1 to any number
– Prepare scaling before it’s painful
Where is the mold?
33. STARTUP CHECKLIST
1. Product Is something working
2. Skills Can the team make it
3. Spirit Resourceful, Optimistic,
Persistent
4. Positioning New segment or new market
10x better in some way or
different
Something hard to do
34. BUILDING THE RIGHT THING
INITIAL PROBLEM
INITIAL SOLUTION
INITIAL PROBLEM
NEW SOLUTION
NEW PROBLEM
INITIAL SOLUTION
NEW PROBLEM
NEW SOLUTION
INITIAL PROBLEM
INITIAL SOLUTION
35. STARTUP CHECKLIST
1. Product Is something working
2. Skills Can the team make it
3. Spirit Resourceful, Optimistic,
Persistent
4. Positioning New segment or new market
5. Demand Proof / Customer discovery
6. Distribution How to sell
7. Plan Beyond first product
36. NOT JUST HARDWARE
• Pure hardware can be copied
• Something hard to do
• HW + SW + Community
–Almost all HAX startups use an app /
cloud
–Algorithms, something HARD to replicate
–Community (GoPro, Makerbot, Glass…)
43. EASYWARE
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
“Two sensors
and an app”
Nobel-grade
research
44. PRESSY
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
PRESSY ($27)
Funded Oct 2013
Raised $695,000
45. PRESSY
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
Speed Button ($10)
(“kuai anniu”)
Funded Jan 2014
Raised $34k
46. PRESSY
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
Xiaomi MiKey
($0.8)
Launched April 2014
“If Xiaomi starts producing
buttons like Pressy,
we will start to produce
smartphones.”
- Founder of Pressy
48. THE BETTER MOUSETRAP MYTH
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
3. SAMEware Bad positioning
“Build a better mousetrap and the
world
will beat a path to your door”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(maybe)
49. THE BETTER MOUSETRAP MYTH
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
3. SAMEware Bad positioning
The problem with
mousetraps
• 4,400 patents
• 400 applicants per year
• “most frequently invented
device in U.S. history”
50. 47 companies launched 3D printers
and raised $100K+ or more in crowdfunding.
Source: Flybridge Capital Partners, 2014.6
COMMODITIZATION?
Is it a commodity?
51. SOLUTIONWARE
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
3. SAMEware Bad positioning
4. SOLUTIONware Solution looking for a problem
52. 1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
3. SAMEware Bad positioning
4. SOLUTIONware Solution looking for a problem
“When you have a hammer, everything looks
like a nail”
THE HAMMER PROBLEM
53. VAPORWARE
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
3. SAMEware Bad positioning
4. SOLUTIONware Solution looking for a problem
5. VAPORware Can’t be made
54. BACK TO THE FUTURE
HOVERBOARD
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
3. SAMEware Bad positioning
4. SOLUTIONware Solution looking for a problem
5. VAPORware Can’t be made
55. DROPKICKER
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
3. SAMEware Bad positioning
4. SOLUTIONware Solution looking for a problem
5. VAPORware Can’t be made
56. LAMEWARE
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
3. SAMEware Bad positioning
4. SOLUTIONware Solution looking for a problem
5. VAPORware Can’t be made
6. LAMEware Not on spec
57. WHEN SOFTWARE WAS STILL
HARDWARE…
LANDFILL IN NEW MEXICO FULL OF GAME CARTRIDGES…
58. WHEN SOFTWARE WAS STILL
HARDWARE…
5.5
weeksCREATOR NOW A PSYCHOTHERAPIST FOR SILICON VALLEY'S HI-TECH COMMUNITY
59. FAILWARE
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
3. SAMEware Bad positioning
4. SOLUTIONware Solution looking for a problem
5. VAPORware Can’t be made
6. LAMEware Not on spec
7. FAILware Successfully built the wrong thing
61. LATEWARE
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
3. SAMEware Bad positioning
4. SOLUTIONware Solution looking for a problem
5. VAPORware Can’t be made
6. LAMEware Not on spec
7. FAILware Successfully built the wrong thing
8. LATEware Validated market but woke up
competitors
62. “WHY LOCKITRON HAS TAKEN SO LONG TO
SHIP”
(CROWDFUNDED WITH $2.3M IN 4Q2012)
63. LOSSWARE
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
3. SAMEware Bad positioning
4. SOLUTIONware Solution looking for a problem
5. VAPORware Can’t be made
6. LAMEware Not on spec
7. FAILware Successfully built the wrong thing
8. LATEware Validated market but woke up
competitors
9. LOSSware Minimal or negative margins
65. BOREWARE
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
3. SAMEware Bad positioning
4. SOLUTIONware Solution looking for a problem
5. VAPORware Can’t be made
6. LAMEware Not on spec
7. FAILware Successfully built the wrong thing
8. LATEware Validated market but woke up
competitors
9. LOSSware Minimal or negative margins
10. BOREware People stop using it
68. Mi Band by Xiaomi
Fitness Tracker
($13)
-
Counts your steps
Vibrates you awake
30 days standby
Water resistant
NEWS FLASH!
69. FUTUREWARE
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
3. SAMEware Bad positioning
4. SOLUTIONware Solution looking for a problem
5. VAPORware Can’t be made
6. LAMEware Not on spec
7. FAILware Successfully built the wrong thing
8. LATEware Validated market but woke up
competitors
9. LOSSware Minimal or negative margins
10. BOREware People stop using it
11. FUTUREware No market before years
70.
71. LOCALWARE
1. FUNware No business
2. EASYware Not defensible
3. SAMEware Bad positioning
4. SOLUTIONware Solution looking for a problem
5. VAPORware Can’t be made
6. LAMEware Not on spec
7. FAILware Successfully built the wrong thing
8. LATEware Validated market but woke up
competitors
9. LOSSware Minimal or negative margins
10. BOREware People stop using it
11. FUTUREware No market before years
75. SOME EXTRAS
13.TEMPware Temporary solution
14.WEAKware Limited value proposition
15.ALIware Repackage a product sourced on Alibaba
16.INFRAware Requires special infrastructure
76. SOME EXTRAS
13.TEMPware Temporary solution
14.WEAKware Limited value proposition
15.ALIware Repackage a product sourced on Alibaba
16.INFRAware Requires special infrastructure
17.SOLITware Single founder
77. SOME EXTRAS
13.TEMPware Temporary solution
14.WEAKware Limited value proposition
15.ALIware Repackage a product sourced on Alibaba
16.INFRAware Requires special infrastructure
17.SOLITware Single founder
18.AWKware Awkward form factor or usage
79. SOME EXTRAS
13.TEMPware Temporary solution
14.WEAKware Limited value proposition
15.ALIware Repackage a product sourced on Alibaba
16.INFRAware Requires special infrastructure
17.SOLITware Single founder
18.AWKware Awkward form factor or usage
19.GROSSware Image problems
80. SOME EXTRAS
13.TEMPware Temporary solution
14.WEAKware Limited value proposition
15.ALIware Repackage a product sourced on Alibaba
16.INFRAware Requires special infrastructure
17.SOLITware Single founder
18.AWKware Awkward form factor or usage
19.GROSSware Image problems
More ideas welcome!
83. THE RETAIL CHASM
PROTOTYPING PRODUCTION SCALING
$
Founders
Friends
Family
Fools
Crowdfunding
Accelerators
Angels
Grants
Sales
Factoring
Banks
VCsPre-orders
RETAIL
CHASM
TIME
84. SCALING STEP BY STEP
$
TIME
Specialty
stores
Big box
retailers
Online
retailers
Direct
85. LEAN RETAIL RULES
Keep demand higher than distribution
Your customers are your best investors
Retail is not a sprint. Learn at each step
Cash flow is king
86. SAVE YOUR CASH FLOW!
Pre-sales (best!)
Credit from supplier (it’s like a bank
loan!)
Factoring (purchase order financing)
Bank credit lines
Revenue-based financing
VC (most expensive money!)
88. KEY STAGES FOR INVESTMENT
1. Concept
2. Work-like prototype
3. Look-like Prototype
4. DFM
5. Crowdfunding
6. First shipment
7. Retail
8. Pre-IPO
We recruit here
We take you there
We help anticipate this
Awaiting you there!