Putting the “Custom” Back In Customer

There is an old saying that you collect data, parse it into useful information, which becomes the basis of knowledge, which is the foundation for wisdom. At every point along that continuum you are getting additional value and perspective in exchange for effort and analysis. I came across a company that made me think about [...]

iFixit is a great company for a number of reasons: + They have a mission and a manifesto to go along with it. + They speak the language of their community and have a personality e.g. their “XBOX Repair Kit” is called the “Red Ring of Death Repair Kit“. + They make awesome software that [...]

Haxlr8r is a startup accelerator along the lines of Y Combinator (It is actually affiliated with YC‘s major competitor TechStars) and aims to help enable a new generation of hardware entrepreneurs. The most interesting part of the program is that it takes place partly in San Francisco and Shenzen. There are a lot of YC-esqe companies [...]

I had the great pleasure of meeting Ash Martin and some of the folks from his company Viztu at an event in Cambridge and came away super impressed. From their website: Hypr3D uses advanced computer vision and digital photogrammetry tools to take 2D photos or videos and turn them into an interactive 3D model. With [...]