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| Jun 28, 2013 | Making hardware is hard — just ask Apple or Samsung | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If Keller Rinaudo is right, a lot of ambitious hardware hackers are about to get a cold, hard smack in the face from reality.
Rinaudo i... |
| Jun 26, 2013 | Why investors & tech startups are flocking to downtown Las Vegas | This is the third part in our series on Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project.
Silicon Valley is facing heat from cities like New York, Seattle, and Denver. Indeed, it’s no longer the only hub sparking innovation.
Las Vegas is one of the... |
| Jun 12, 2013 | VentureBeat wants to demo your mobile-based gadget | Do you have an awesome app that blends emotion and robot like Romotive does? Are you blowing minds with interconnected iPads that we can play games on? Can you help us not kill our plants? Are you building tablet-driven robots to better con... |
| May 31, 2013 | Showcase your mobile-based gadget at MobileBeat 2013! | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We’re looking for the best and brightest next generation of thinkers who blend mobile and machine to demo their gadgets on the floor at... |
| May 31, 2013 | Showcase your mobile-based gadget at MobileBeat 2013! | We’re looking for the best and brightest next generation of thinkers who blend mobile and machine to demo their gadgets on the floor at MobileBeat 2013, our flagship mobile event on July 9-10 in San Francisco. The “Whosits and Whatsits Galo... |
| May 14, 2013 | These new mini robots could teach your 5-year-old how to program | Vikas Gupta
Kids love robots.
And now a new San Francisco area company, backed with $1 million from the likes of Google Ventures and Madrona Venture Group, is looking to develop a new class of low-cost robots designed to help five to eight-... |
| Apr 8, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Shorty Awards, NYU Startup Week, Big Apple Smackdown, NY Tech Meetup, PSFK, British Invasion, LeanUX, Investor Feedback Forum, Assembled Food) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| Apr 5, 2013 | Relive VentureBeat’s Mobile Summit in pictures | If you couldn’t make it to this year’s Mobile Summit, you can at least live through the experience vicariously through the photos below. (And there’s always our upcoming MobileBeat conference.)
Just like our past two Mobile Summits, this ye... |
| Apr 5, 2013 | Relive VentureBeat’s Mobile Summit in pictures | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If you couldn’t make it to this year’s Mobile Summit, you can at least live through the experience vicariously through the photos below... |
| Mar 7, 2013 | Got Hardware? Dragon Innovation Helps Big Names Get Built | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A few months before his little startup company became a poster child for the crowdfunding revolution, Eric Migicovsky had one of those moments of serious panic.
He’d been thro... |
| Feb 20, 2013 | Rod Brooks, Chris Anderson, Aldo Zini to Star at SRI Robotics Event | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A couple of weeks ago we opened ticket sales for our second annual Silicon Valley robotics forum. It’s called Robots Remake the Workplace. But we could have just as easily cal... |
| Feb 18, 2013 | Ivy League Students Get A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Dropbox, Cue, Romotive, And More | Sequoia Capital and the student-run Princeton publication Business Today held their first Start @ A Startup conference this weekend, where more than 100 students (largely, but not entirely, from Ivy League schools) were recruited to join th... |
| Jan 29, 2013 | TC Cribs: Inside Romotive, The Las Vegas Startup Where A New Generation Of Robots Is Being Born | It’s time for another episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you behind the gates of some of the tech industry’s hottest companies to see the factory floors where your tastiest app and gadget sausage is made.
It’s great to go... |
| Oct 16, 2012 | Romotive unveils new $150 smartphone-controlled robot, lands $5M from Sequoia, others | Romotive today is unveiling its next-generation smartphone-controlled robot, a $150 device that the company says is faster and “more sleekly designed” than earlier versions. It’s also announcing $5 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, C... |
| Oct 16, 2012 | Romo, The iPhone-Powered Robot, Grows Up | The first Romo was a cute little hand-made robot with a cute little face that roamed around the room, turning your phone into a rat-sized telepresence rig. The Romo folks, Romotive, are based in Las Vegas and they assembled each Romo 1.0 by... |
| Oct 15, 2012 | The new Romo: stronger, faster, smarter personal robot (and cuter, too) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Romo 1 earned Kickstarter pledges of $114,796. But the newest Romo is just getting started.
Romotive, the “smartphone robot company” th... |
| Feb 7, 2012 | Candid Advice for Founders as Kinect Accelerator Deadline Hits | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Long hours, breakneck deadlines, high stakes, and conflicting advice—it’s all part of the package when entrepreneurs submit a few months of their life to an incubator program ... |
| Jan 11, 2012 | Digital Desert Hub – Can The Downtown Project Create Silicon Strip In Vegas? | While thousands of people swarmed all over CES, I went off-beat and headed north to downtown Las Vegas. This is the old part of the city where once gamblers at slot machines listened to Sinatra wafting through the Casino doors rather than B... |
| Nov 24, 2011 | Romotive Raises $115K through Kickstarter | Romotive, a Seattle, WA-based start up that produces hardware and software to combine the computing power of smartphones with the mechanics of moving machines, has raised $115k through crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.
Co-founded by Phu Ng... |
| Nov 7, 2011 | TechStars Honchos David Cohen & Andy Sack: The Post-Demo Day Download | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If you want a glimpse at the leading edge of tech startups, TechStars Demo Day is a fine place to go prospecting. In just 60 minutes of total pitch time, you’ve got a damn goo... |
| Nov 4, 2011 | TechStars Cloud applicants meetup in San Antonio | The deadline to apply for the TechStars Cloud program is Monday.
But already the program has received several hundred applications for the inaugural TechStars program in San Antonio, said Jason Seats, managing director for TechStars Cloud a... |
| Nov 3, 2011 | My five favorite pitches from the TechStars Seattle Demo Day | TechStars Seattle today concluded their three-month long startup bootcamp as 10 companies presented their business ideas to a packed crowd at the Showbox Sodo in Seattle.
It’s been a long, hard voyage for each of the companies, starting wit... |
| Aug 25, 2011 | Meet the lucky two percent: A peek at the startups that just entered TechStars Seattle | Inside the TechStars incubator in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood
TechStars Seattle just accepted their second batch of entrepreneurs — 10 new hatchlings who are furiously writing code (probably right now as we speak) in all-out eff... |