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During our careers, we’ve invested in a number of companies that sell consumer-electronics devices. In the past several years, we’ve invested in companies like Sling Media, Pogoplug, Smith & Tinker, Pie Digital, Sifteo, and most recently, FitBit and Orbotix.
In recent years it has become dramatically less expensive to design, build, and bring a consumer electronics device to market. The emergence of low-cost and low-power processors, DSPs and SOCs (systems-on-a-chip), the declining cost of all forms ...
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Posted by: Ryan McIntyre
Brad and I were lucky enough to see the Bilski argument at the Supreme Court. We were both beyond impressed and each wrote about our experience. Jason’s recap is here. You can find Brad’s summary here.
We are hopeful that as a result of this case, business method patents will be forever dead and gone. Given the tenor and body language of the court, we would be surprised if it turned out any other way. ...
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Posted by: Jason Mendelson
At Foundry we organize our thinking about investing into what we call “themes”. The themes we pursue are horizontal in nature and are driven by underlying technology protocols and standards or emerging market trends and customer needs. Examples of the investment themes we are currently pursuing include Human Computer Interaction, Implicit Web, Email, Glue, and Digital Life.
As part of this approach we look to meaningfully participate in the ongoing conversation taking place within these thematic ...
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Posted by: Seth Levine
Foundry Group attended the latest incarnation of CES this past week and thought we’d give some of our thoughts on the show. In no particular order, here is “What We Learned at CES.”
Don’t buy a television for the next 6 months. This is certainly counter to what retailers and producers would want us to say, especially given the current state of the economy, but all the major brands are introducing exciting technologies in the first ...
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Posted by: Jason Mendelson
It’s a scary thing to think of these two spending time together, but the political machine and the music industry have become strange bedfellows as of late. Specifically, we’ve been following the royalty negotiations and legislative actions surrounding Pandora.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Pandora, it’s an Internet music streaming company that allows listeners to discover new music based on what they already like. And best of all, it’s free. Jason wrote a ...
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Posted by: Jason Mendelson
