Renee Diresta

Hardware Startup

Building Your Product, Business, and Brand

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Produktbeschreibung

Hardware startups leveled off in 2014 after sharp increases the previous two years, but there’s no sign that IoT products have lost their luster, given their momentum in key economic sectors from health and energy to agriculture and financial services. In our biannual report, Hardware by the Numbers: Summer 2015, you’ll learn the most pertinent data behind the latest IoT trends.

Renee DiResta, Vice President of Business Development at Haven, not only reveals how many prominent accelerators around the world focus solely on hardware—and why startups participating in these programs are roughly split between B2B and B2C business models—but also examines the effect this emerging ecosystem is having in several industries, including:
Health: wearables constitute the majority of connected devices

Energy: "smart grids" continue to drive IoT adoption

Financial services/insurance: sensors help this industry move from actuarial tables to behavioral and usage data

Agriculture: conservation of resources and maximization of yield are at the forefront of IoT innovation

Logistics and Transportation: startups are making inroads with GPS, routing optimization tools, and more

Public sector: governments are moving down the path to instrumented cities

Download this free report and discover the opportunities awaiting hardware and software entrepreneurs in the IoT space.

Renee DiResta is Vice President of Business Development at Haven and a cofounder of the IoT Syndicate on AngelList. She was previously a principal at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), where she spent four years as a VC investing in seed-stage technology startups. She also spent seven years an equity derivatives trader at Jane Street Capital, a quantitative proprietary trading firm in NYC. Renee is the author of The Hardware Startup (O’Reilly).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media / O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2015
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781449371036
• ISBN-10: 1449371035
• Artikelnr.: 40143778

Autorenporträt

Renee DiResta is Vice President of Business Development at Haven, a marketplace for ocean freight shipping, and a cofounder of the IoT Syndicate on AngelList. She was previously a Principal at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), where she spent four years as a VC investing in seed-stage technology startups. Prior to OATV, Renee spent seven years an equity derivatives trader at Jane Street Capital, a quantitative proprietary trading firm in NYC. For fun, she plays with data sets, helps run The Maker Map open-source project, and is an avid crafter. Renee holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Political Science from the Honors College of SUNY Stony Brook. She lives on the web at http://noupsi.de and @noupside. Brady Forrest (@brady) runs Highway1, PCH's accelerator. You can see his day-to-day work with hardware startups on Syfy's Bazillion Dollar Club (to be released Fall 2015). He cofounded and shepherds Ignite, a global talk series, and is part of the team currently organizing Ignite SF. He's a Venture Advisor to 500 Startups and helps arts organizations via CAST-sf.org. Formerly, he worked on a number of things at O'Reilly Media, including the Radar blog, Web 2.0 Expo, Where 2.0, ETech, and Foo Camp. Most years, you can find him on the playa. Ryan Vinyard is the Engineering Lead at Highway1, a hardware-focused startup accelerator located in San Francisco under parent company PCH International. He is a mechanical engineer who came to PCH through its consulting arm Lime Lab, where he developed consumer products for Fortune 500 brands. Previously, Ryan worked at startups in the cleantech and electric vehicle space, where he developed novel powertrain, motor control, and thermal systems. Ryan holds a B.S. in Product Design from Stanford University.