China roundup: Keep down internet upstarts, cultivate hard tech

by | 1 August, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Asia, bilibili, Boeing, CNBC, Hardware, iRobot, Kreditech, luckin, May Mobility, Northern Light Venture Capital, Sequoia Capital China, software as a service, TC, The New York Times, Toyota, vista equity partners, Welight Capital, working remotely

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The tech industry in China has had quite a turbulent week. The government is upending its $100...

The RapidSOS EC-1

by | 27 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Boeing, california, debt, Disrupt SF 2020, govtech, harvard university, Highland Capital, indiana, law enforcement, Parade Ventures, polaris, rapidsos, rapidsos ec-1, sales cycle, Startups, TC, The Boring Company, United States, virtual assistant, web content management

Three digits, so little time. Numbers can take on profound cultural significance, but few numbers have quite the resonance as 911, the emergency number for the United States. Few want to dial it, but when they must, it works — every single time. One industry trade...

Smoking pizza ovens and pilfered dollar bills, or the early story of RapidSOS

by | 27 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, agility, Apple, Boeing, cologne, debt, Finance, govtech, Harley-Davidson Motor Company, harvard university, Highland Capital, labster, metamaterials, Motorola Solutions, New York, Oklahoma, Parade Ventures, rapidsos, rapidsos ec-1, sales cycle, Startups, TC, teller, The Boring Company, Uber, Venture Capital

The irony of 911 is that it’s a number that everyone knows (at least in the United States), and yet, no one really thinks about it. Few of us will dial 911 more than a handful of times in our lives, and even when we do, we will meet the police officers and...

RapidSOS learned that the best product design is sometimes no product design

by | 27 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Apple, Boeing, cologne, debt, Enterprise, govtech, Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Highland Capital, Jeff Eggers, Parade Ventures, rapidsos ec-1, sales cycle, Startups, TC, Uber, Venture Capital

Sometimes, the best missions are the hardest to fund. For the founders of RapidSOS, improving the quality of emergency response by adding useful data, like location, to 911 calls was an inspiring objective, and one that garnered widespread support. There was just one...