Your business name sets the stage for each and every one of your branding exploits in your future. It should create a connection between your business and your target demographic, and it needs to describe who you are and what you want your new business to represent. Just as a successful name can benefit your [...]
There are plenty of reasons why a well-backed startup can fail. Backing or not, it is easy to fail and not easy to succeed. Now, having investor backing is good but having money in the bank also helps to make mistakes. Overpaying tools, people, etc. Also, bad management/governance. We have seen quite a few examples [...]
At what point do you go out and raise VC money as opposed to bootstrapping? You bootstrap, always. You raise VC, only when needed and for the right reasons. Bootstrapping and funding via revenue is the preferred pathway that allows founders to retain their equity and not waste (a lot of) time chasing investment. VC [...]
Looking at the near future of computing, the volume of data will increase 18-fold, and every year the demand for computing power will increase 10-fold. This will create huge demand for heterogeneous computing. With this in mind, Huawei announced today the Kunpeng 920: an Advanced RISC Machine (ARM)-based CPU (Central Processing Unit) with the industry's [...]
A common myth is that growing a business is necessarily expensive. One prevailing thought is that because it ‘takes money to make money’, there needs to be a massive front-end investment in operations, sales, brick-and-mortar expansion, and other areas in order to really achieve the kind of growth that brings the most profits. The reality [...]