Jerry Yang

Capital inefficiency in hardware startups is a myth, period

When I joined my partners at the Hardware Club to re-focus myself on investments in hardware startups, my former boss at my previous VC firm warned me, out of concerns about my career, that hardware startups were capital inefficient and would not be able to generate the investment returns as well as lean startups. At […]

Manufacturing for Hardware Startups Hinges on Long-Term Interest Alignment

Manufacturing for Hardware Startups Hinges on Long-Term Interest Alignment

Today it’s a foregone conclusion that hardware startups are on the rise. Not only are there more and more exciting hardware startups springing up almost from everywhere in the world, notable exits such as Nest (acquired by Google) and Fitbit (IPO on NYSE in June 2015) have also proved that hardware startups could generate just […]