IT総合 Canon sidles up to vloggers with PowerShot V10
Who says compact cameras are dead? Well, the market does, actually; the mobile phone has all but killed off the category...
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IT総合 Helion Energy will provide Microsoft with fusion power starting in 2028
Helion, the clean energy company with its eye firmly on the fusion prize, announced a couple of years ago that it had se...
IT総合 With its planet-friendly protein, Farmless wants to dramatically outperform animal agriculture
Dutch startup Farmless has today announced that it has raised a €1.2 million pre-seed equity round at an undisclosed val...
IT総合 How to find the right investors for your startup
A lot of my work as a consultant involves helping founders come up with a good fundraising story, but a surprising numbe...
IT総合 mHub opens much bigger facility to kick Chicago startups into high gear
When mHub opened its doors in Chicago seven years ago, the vision was to create a traditional incubator for people makin...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: The Perfect Pitch Deck
We are a good 47 pitch decks into our Pitch Deck Teardown series, and one piece of feedback we’ve gotten frequentl...
IT総合 Macrofab’s approach may be key to nearshoring PCB manufacturing in the US
There’s a growing trend, fed by everything from IP concerns to Suez Canal traffic jams, to bring manufacturing back to N...
IT総合 Augmental lets you control a computer (and sex toys) with your tongue
Worldwide, about one in six people live with a disability. Whether through injury or illness, disability can manifest it...
IT総合 How this investor widens its net by refusing warm intros
I have often been annoyed by warm introductions. I get why investors insist on them, but it has always struck me as lazy...
IT総合 Warm intros are awful for diversity, so why do investors keep insisting on them?
There are oodles of advantages to having a diverse workforce, but, as inBeta founder James Nash points out, you can̵...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Careerist’s $8M Series A deck
Careerist claims it closed an $8 million round of funding with a tight 12-slide deck, and gave us a lot to learn from in...
IT総合 For your pitch, last impressions count almost as much as first impressions
Your first slide is obviously important for a pitch deck; first impressions count, and having a solid introduction goes ...
IT総合 Aventurine helps early-stage founders find their footing
“There’s a ton of stuff that really could be impacting the lives of everybody on Earth, that is not making it out ...
IT総合 How technology unlocks business models: The story of Netflix
“Usually the best way to figure out if your crazy idea is any good is simply to try it. So that’s what we did,” Marc R...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Honeycomb’s $50M Series D deck
Honeycomb raised $50 million to make the new landscape of platforms and services more observable. Its long-term goal is ...
IT総合 We tried out Canon’s VR calling app Kokomo
When you think Canon, you might think cameras, scanners, printers and such. At CES this year, the company did a stride t...
IT総合 Dabbsson’s new Home Backup Power Station are here to keep your lights on
What do you do when the lights go out? When the snow became too much for the power lines as a kid, I remember candles an...
IT総合 New Withings scale hides the heavy burden of knowing your own weight
Today, fourteen years after the company introduced its first smart scale, health gadget startup Withings is introducing ...
IT総合 7 common pitfalls for hardware startups and how to avoid them
You’ve likely heard that “hardware is hard”; mostly because hardware startups have to deal with things...
IT総合 Was I an AI all along?
Over the weekend, we started a cult. It was one of those things that happen when you decide to stop drinking for a few w...
IT総合 No, you’re not raising money to increase your runway
I often hear founders say they are raising money to increase their runway by 18 to 24 months. In a sense, that is accura...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Diamond Standard’s $30M Series A deck
When the financial markets go all wobbly, conservative investors turn to scarce resources that are unlikely to plummet i...
IT総合 Whoops, using crypto and cannabis don’t mix after all
Life comes at you fast. A couple of months ago I wrote how Smoakland was testing a loophole to sell cannabis by credit c...
IT総合 EV-to-grid charging is complicated, but California is gearing up to clear the way
If you have solar panels on your roof, it makes sense to add batteries, too, so you have some degree of self-sufficiency...
IT総合 If you’ve raised venture capital, you have to pay yourself
Forgive me, but this post will likely be a bit of a rant.
I had a call with a founder I’m advising this morning. H...
IT総合 HeatTransformers turns up the dial on heat pumps with new funding
In the Netherlands, central heating boilers will be banned by 2026 and its government has incentivized the installation ...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Smalls’ $19M Series B deck
Smalls has raised a total of $34 million for its cat food subscription business. But in a competitive pet food market, h...
IT総合 Alga Biosciences wants to help climate change, one bovine burp at a time
Cows are a significant source of methane emissions, primarily due to their unique digestive system. Milk and beef cows a...
IT総合 Portable X-ray vision is one step closer to reality with OXOS Medical
The global medical imaging market was valued at a touch over $28 billion in 2021, and is only expected to rise with an i...
IT総合 Spiraling costs are killing the mobile gaming space
Mobile gaming is set to reach $315.9 billion this year, according to Statista, but it’s not easy money: Various su...