Lean Robot Startup Workshop
by Andra
… with Patrick Vlaskovits and Brant Cooper, authors of “The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development”, forthcoming “The Lean Entrepreneur” and Lean Startup Machine advisors.
Year: 2012
Robot Launchpad Updates
by andra
Subscribe to List View Past Issues RSS Startup Science | Meetups | Robot Potluck| Google I/O after hack | sign up for accelerator | plus more robot or startup events ROBOT Launch Pad A robot startup community ~ growing robots one startup at a time. Robot teams wanted for the Google Developers Group HACKATHON – send us your idea …
Robot Launchpad Grand Challenge 2012
by andra
It’s our turn for a Grand Challenge! The prize will be a successful million dollar business. The catch is you build it yourself. The rules? Well, you don’t need to be a robot scientist to do it. You just need to build a robot business! Take an existing robot platform – EITHER an autonomous mobile …
Latest Updates
by Andra
Subscribe to List View Past Issues RSS AUVSI Meeting | Meetups | Robot Potluck| IP for Robotics | Robot Startup 101 course soon | plus re robot or startup events ROBOT Launch Pad A robot startup community ~ growing robots one startup at a time. A very quick update, ahead of Homebrew tonight and the AUVSI meeting tomorrow. The …
Why Robot Startups Now? part 2
by Andra
2. Broader Financial Climate A positive indicator for robotics startups is the improving financial climate. There are signs that the US housing market is stabilizing. Fannie Mae, the government backed mortgage company, has posted a profit for the first time since 2007 without needing a government bailout. The decline in home prices is slowing, …
Why Robot Startups Now?
by Andra
Now is the right time for robot startups. Why? The reasons range from changes within robotics to changes in the broader financial and technological environment. There is a critical mass which we believe has been reached. This list attempts to capture the zeitgeist and define all the reasons why we’ve hit the tipping point. I …
I/Vs from MEGA Startup Weekend
by Andra
While Sara Ahmadian was mentoring the robotics track at MEGA Startup Weekend, she managed also to arrange interviews for Venture Cap TV, a weekly vlog on startups. While Venture Cap is based in Montreal, they aren’t afraid to travel!
Robots are good but roboticists are better!
by Andra
MEGA Startup Weekend proved that you can mix startups and robots together and build new robot businesses. Now we need to work out how to repeat the success. It’s clear now that having real robot platforms is very inspiring. So is providing soldering irons, arduinos, and other materials like moldable plastics. But most of the …
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MEGA Startup Weekend – pix & stories
by Andra
I’m collecting links to videos, pix, stories from MEGA Startup Weekend – with Robots. The MEGA site has some great postscripts by Claire Lee of the Microsoft BizSpark team and Kelly Byrd, the talkTECH PR & Social Media Director. All the pitches and Q&As are on the Robot Launch Pad youtube channel, thanks to Michael Harries. …