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Ten Startups at Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator Make Their Big Debut

the 10 startups that comprise the first class to graduate from the Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator, powered by Techstars:

Carbon Robotics, founded last year in San Francisco, has been developing an industrial robotic arm that can be used by small and medium-sized businesses for such tasks as decorating a cake (based on a design drawn on an iPad), pasting shipping labels on boxes, and using pipettes in biotech lab experiments. “It doesn’t make sense to spend $100,000 for [robotic] tools that only operate a few hours at a time,” said Rosanna Myers, a co-founder and CEO.

CtrlWorks, founded in 2011 in Singapore, has developed the Axon, a robot that resembles a submarine periscope on wheels. The Axon can be attached to carts and pallet jacks used to move material around a warehouse, and wheelchairs used to move people around airports. Co-founder and CEO Sim Kai said the innovation lies in Axon’s connection to a cloud-based navigation platform that enables the robot to find its way around any shop floor or warehouse—and enables CtrlWorks to generate recurring revenue by charging a monthly subscription fee for its software as a service.

Skysense, founded in Berlin in 2014, has created a modular “drone service station in a box” that serves as a landing pad, charging station, and on-site storage unit for multi-rotor drones. Operators also can remotely re-program drones while they are being stored in the box. Co-founder and CEO Andrea Puiatti said one of the company’s first customers is Singapore Aerospace, which requires 10 drones.

Rational Robotics, founded last year in Edmonton, Canada, has developed a robot that uses 3D scanning technology to spray-paint parts in auto body shops—“all done without human intervention and at higher quality,” according to co-founder and CEO Ashley Reddy.

Skyfront drone on exhibit at Demo Day

Skyfront, founded in Hoboken, NJ, in 2014, has developed a hybrid-electric technology that converts gasoline to electricity in flight—and extends the typical 20-minute to 30-minute flight time of a battery-powered drone to four hours. Co-founder and CEO Troy Mestler said Skyfront’s lawnmower-size Tailwind drone is ideal for use in search and rescue operations, and in scanning a “large farm the size of 1,000 football fields.”

CleverPet, founded in San Diego in 2013, has developed Internet-connected robotic technology that keeps stay-at-home pets occupied by interacting with kibble feeders and smart toys. The company has been collecting data from 1,000 CleverPet units in the field, and is targeting the estimated $7 billion a year that Americans spend every year on doggie day care. The crowd roared in laughter when co-founder and CEO Leo Trottier said, “Our user base literally has nothing better to do.”

Inova Drone was founded in San Diego last year. Co-founder and CEO Chad Amonn said the company has sharpened its focus on four technologies developed to operate its heavy-duty drone as an “aerial vision platform.” Amonn said Inova Drone’s high-performance Eagle 1 drone is ideally suited for public safety missions like wildfire spotting and surveillance and for such tasks as bridge and utility power-line inspections.

Muse Robotics, founded in Athens, Greece, in 2013, is focused on developing electro-mechanical components that can be used across a wide variety of robots. “Standardization is the way all industries grow,” co-founder and CEO Alexandros Nikolakakis told the audience.

Solenica, founded two years ago and based in Rome, Italy, has developed Lucy, a solar-tracking mirror (which is also solar-powered) that reflects sunlight into a home or office. According to co-founder and CEO Diva Tommei, the startup team spent its time at the accelerator working mostly on product development and market validation, yet Solenica still sold 320 Lucys and accrued over $60,000. A complementary smartphone also measures how many lumens Lucy has delivered, and tracks electricity savings.

Reach Robotics, founded in Bristol, U.K., in 2013, is focused on the game industry. But co-founder and CEO Silas Adekunle told the audience, “The gaming landscape is changing, bringing the game out of the screen and into our world.” The startup said its crablike MekaMon is “the world’s first intelligent battle robot.” Players use augmented reality technology to create a futuristic world around the game.

http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2015/09/11/ten-startups-at-qualcomm-robotics-accelerator-make-their-big-debut/2/

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상당히 자세한 분석인데 평균이다 보니 각 지역의 현실을 잘 반영하는것 같지는 않습니다. 추세정보 비교는 가능할것 같네요. 이런 data를 분석해서 인포그래픽으로 만들어 내는 사람들 정말 존경합니다.

• what to learn
• which role to play
• startup or not

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If we look at a software engineer’s salary as a journey of many steps, at every step we’ll see that where you are, what you do, what you value most, and when you join the company determines your salary according to recent research by Startup Compass.

How can you get paid the most?

Before we dive into the statistics, let’s see what kind of a software engineer would get paid the most. Let’s call our hypothetical engineer Alex.

When Alex chooses the programming language to learn, she should go for the less user-friendly and hard to learn ones. C++ is the best. She should also focus on programming the backend.

Become the CTO, right away

Next, Alex should aim for being a CTO or VP of Engineering as soon as possible. Being an architect would be the next best thing.

But being a CTO right away is ambitious, unless Alex heads to work in a startup. Luckily, startups tend to pay more than the other two options – traditional IT firms and freelancing. Being the CTO of a startup from day 1 is possible, as long as Alex is really good.

Now that we know Alex is looking to work in a startup, how big should the startup be? Ideally, 51-100 people.

Does it matter that Alex does not yet have experience? Yes. Her salary will rise significantly after 6 years. It will go up almost twice once she has 20 years of experience.

But salaries changes thanks to raises. Alex would likely get a significant raise after the third year. So it makes sense to stay at the startup at least that long.

Just money or a piece of the pie?

But Alex might see more meaning in her work than just getting money. She might be interested in getting a piece of the company she works for – equity. Here, she will have to sacrifice a little. As the CTO, she will get around 13% of the company and about $96,000. Were she a VP of Engineering, she could get 2% of the company instead and take home $120,000.

So at what stage should Alex join a startup? Her salary will be the lowest at a startup with no funding or seed funding. If she wants a higher salary,  she should wait until the startup raises their series B round of funding. Of course, by the time series B comes around there will probably be another CTO at the startup. But that CTO could leave, so joining a well-funded startup as the CTO is still possible, but at that point there will be less equity to go around.

All startups can be divided into consumer product oriented ones and enterprise oriented ones. While building things for consumers might be more exciting, the enterprise oriented startups tend to pay more. So Alex should be looking at startups that describe themselves as “SaaS”, “B2B”, “platform.” If that sounds too boring, there are always more consumer startups out there.

Lastly, there are many kinds of a software engineer Alex could be, aside from her CTO title. The highest-paid kind would be a software architect. The next best thing would be a data scientist.

By now Alex probably realizes that the advice on how to get a higher salary is conflicting. By now she may wonder whether getting the highest salary is less important than her freedom to choose a less popular programming language, to get more equity in a company, or to become a different kind of software engineer. She will have some deciding to do.

Where did we get this data?

In October 2014, Startup Compass  conducted a Tech Salary survey of the engineering community from around the world to gather data on salary and equity. They included basic salary information from different countries, roles and skills as well as technologies from other sources such as Elance-oDesk, Toptal, Glassdoor, Angellist and Payscale.

Margaret Hamilton – lead software engineer of Appolo, who coined the term “Software Engineering”

kickstarter에 재밌는 프로젝트가 올라왔네요. 라즈베리 파이보다 더 싼 $9 짜리 컴퓨터입니다. 가격이 참 좋습니다. 저렴한데 connectivity에 대한 생각도 많이 한것 같습니다. CPU는 중국산 ARM 칩을 쓰는것 같습니다. 중국AP를 엄청나게 싸게 구할수 있나보네요. OS는 open source 리눅스 같고요. 다만 사양이 좀 떨어지는것 같습니다. 지금 팔아도 가격에 비해 쬐금 싸다할 느낌인데 내년에 판다고 하면 경쟁자가 엄청 많아질것도 같습니다.

>At the heart of the C.H.I.P. is a 1GHz Allwinner SoC

마케팅도 잘하는 것 같고 구성원을 보니 9명이나 포함된 큰 팀입니다.

2015년 말이나 shipping이 가능할것으로 보이고요, 배터리/screen까지 포함된 제품은 2016년 중순예정입니다. 이렇게 자본을 모아 재품을 개발할수 있다는 것은 재밌는 일이네요.

이미 73만불이나 모금해서 내년까지 충분히 R&D를 진행할수 있을것으로 보입니다.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/chip-9-dollar-pc-kickstarter,news-20906.html

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer/video_share

파퀴아오 vs 메이웨더 경기가 파이팅 머니에 걸맞지 않게 아주 싱겁게 끝난후로 여러 후폭풍이 있습니다. 세기의 대결이라고 광고하더니, 역시 이 세상은 자본력으로 마케팅만 잘하면 뭐든 다 성공할수 있을것 같습니다. 원래는 2차전까지 염두해 뒀겠지만 지금 분위기로는 팬들이 원하지 않을것 같네요. 빨라야 2016년 말에나 가능할텐데 그때는 더 안싸울려들거니까요.

이번에 Pay-per-View 수입도 역대 기록을 다 갈아치웠다고 하는데, 공짜로 LIVE 보는 방법도 많았다고 합니다. 그중에 스마트폰 기반으로 하는 방송앱이 상당히 흥행했다고 합니다. 핸드폰에서 중계하는 TV를 찍어서 방송하는것이라 저작권을 빗겨갈수 있다고하는데, 이것도 법적으로 다시 검토가 되겠네요. 돈좀 벌려고 하는 기득권들이 기술의 발전으로 판이 깨질까봐 좌줄안석이겠네요. Napster(넵스터)같다는 말도 심심찮게 나오고 있습니다.

Periscope 은 iOS만 지원합니다. 12명정도 일하고 있는 start-up인것 같습니다. Twitter(트위터)가 인수했다고 합니다.

Meerkat 은 iOS와 Android를 동시에 지원합니다. 여기는 좀더 성장한 기업같습니다.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/04/technology/live-stream-mayweather-pacquiao/index.html?iid=HP_LN

40,000 vs 36,000

전세계 맥도날드 매장은 36,000개(오늘 날짜로 screen capture했습니다). 한국의 닭집(치킨집)은 40,000(4만개가량). 맥도날드는 목이 좋은곳에 잘사될많나 곳에만 내어주니까 상당히 숫자가 빨리늘지 않는다는 점도 있기는 있지만... 치킨집 개수로 한국 인구가 한 5억쯤 될것으로 판단됩니다.

회사때려치고 치킨집이나 차려야겠다는 말이 그냥 하는 말이 아니었네요.

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http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/society_general/626722.html

http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/our_company.html

모처럼 한국 밴쳐기업의 이름을 듣네요. 줄넘기에서 LED가 나와 넘는 개수가 앞에 보이게 하고 블루투스(Bluetooth)를 통해 스마트폰과 연동되게 하겠다는 사물인터넷(IoT)의 대표적은 제품입니다. 저도 줄넘기를 안한지 오래됐고 주변에서 줄넘기 많이하는 사람을 본적은 없으니 상품성은 좀 떨어질거라 생각하지만, 기술을 응용할 분야가 상당히 많은것 같습니다. 킥스타터에서 20만불가까이 모금을 했습니다. 페이지가 깔깜한것이 생판 초짜 밴쳐는 아닌것 같고 자본력이 있는 회사라고 보여지네요.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1990698791/smart-rope

탱그램(Tangram) 회사정보를 찾아보니 2008년에 한국에서 창업된 회사네요. 그동안 어떻게 생존했는지는 참 궁금한데, 이것을 기반으로 미국으로 진출하면 좋겠습니다.

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