Video: We asked startups quirky questions at TechCrunch Shanghai
How would you introduce your startup to an 80-year-old lady? And to your blind date? We asked around at the Startup Alley at TechCrunch Shanghai 2017, …
Tag: Hardware
Now in Shenzhen: Workshop is the Uber for mass production
This is the first post of Now in Shenzhen, where TechNode visits a handful of Shenzhen-based companies that leverages Shenzhen's core strength: manufac…
4 things hardware startups should know when entering China
For hardware companies, China is a no-brainer place to be, considering its market size and its role as a manufacturing hub. Hardware companies like Xia…
Three Tips For Chinese Hardware Companies Going Global
Instead of focusing only on domestic growth, Chinese hardware companies are clearly more mindful of overseas markets in line with the globalization ini…
Ex-Samsung Engineer Mom Finds Formula For Success In Chinese Crowdfunding
Piena CEO Michelle Kang served as a Samsung Electronic's semiconductor engineer for nine years until she gave birth to her son. It was an experience …
World’s Thinnest Solar Charger Breaks South Korean Crowdfunding Record
The Holy Grail for many entrepreneurs is to create a chargeless phone or battery. Since Nokia and a few other players announced work on cha…
Tech Innovation Is No Longer Linear: HAX Accelerator China
As China looks to enter a new era of innovation-led tech, it hopes to leave behind its reputation for copying the world's hardware. It's a difficult …
Hong Kong’s Newest Accelerator Aims To Disrupt IoT Entrepreneurship
Hong Kong-based Internet of Things (IoT) accelerator Brinc is pulling an international crowd of startups closer to China in an attempt to kickstart inn…
Five Chinese Hardware Verticals to Watch in 2015
A craze for smart hardware has been raging in the past year, especially in China which is at the center of the smart hardware industrial chain. The tre…
TechNode Roundup: 20+ Hardware Startups at Shanghai TNT Event
After a wonderful TechCrunch China/TechNode conference with a "Red Hardware" theme this August in Beijing, we brought the passion for hardware to S…
Ten Hardware Startups From HAXLR8R’s Fifth Demo Day
HAXLR8R, an accelerator program for hardware startups around the world, graduated 10 new hardware companies at its fifth Demo Day in San Francisco. Eac…
Will Hardware Craze Boom or Bust?
Hardware is all the rage this year. Internet giants are vying to keep ahead in the sector by acquiring hardware startups, rolling out home-grown pr…