For example, in the mid-1970s, I raised a second round of equity capital for a computer hardware company by calling 75 venture capital companies.
Some venture firms avoid these investment pitfalls by targeting clean energy software companies and capital light hardware or process-improvement industries.
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And that will translate into fewer loans and venture capital dollars for hardware, software and technology services.
Citing concerns about softening tech hardware end demand, RBC Capital analyst Amit Daryanani this morning turned cautious on the IT supply chain, downgrading shares of the contract electronics manufacturers Benchmark Electronics and Sanmina, and reducing estimates and price targets for various other stocks.
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Away from Istanbul where clones and tech startups dominate, Ali found encouragement to pursue the idea many dismiss as hardware heavy and, thereby, capital dependent.
Rohan thinks the pending Motorola Mobility acquisition could distract senior management, while failing to protect Android and leading Google into the intensely competitive mobile phone hardware business, and keeping Google from returning capital to holders.
"They modestly missed on the revenue line, partially due to forex, and slightly on software and hardware revenue, " said Amit Daryanani at RBC Capital Markets.
"Every city is going to have glitches, " said Paul DeMaio, who helped develop Capital Bikeshare in Washington, which runs on the same hardware as Citi Bike.
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Donna Glassner, a clerk in a local hardware store, says she was surprised by the celebrations in the capital as the announcement of Bin Laden's death was made.
Hardware startup founders and CEOs share experiences producing products, building prototypes and raising capital for their initiatives.
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Within just a few years, companies began switching from hardware to cloud services because they were attracted to benefits like a reduction in capital costs as well as an easing in IT staffing issues.
While there are costs ranging from managing the applications and the capital equipment to run them this should be higher margin revenue then the hardware side of the business.
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Marquardt, general partner at August Capital, is a banker, professional board member, and, formerly, a hardware guy.
The traditional show of the Myanmar military's power this year put more of its hardware on display than in the past, including helicopter demonstrations and flyovers by fighter jets in the capital, Naypyitaw.
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"With the cloud you have more recurring costs you can finance out of operating funds, as opposed to digging into your capital fund, and you have way less responsibility for maintaining, upgrading and protecting all this hardware every few years, " says Mr. Daher.
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Between the giant screen gaming demos, the shiny new hardware and the ever-present booth babes, the Electronic Entertainment Expo may well be the short attention span capital of North America at the moment.
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