Scott Goodwin (@BostonTechCPA) profile picture

Boston CPA serving the needs of tech entrepreneurs and their investors.

Boston, MA
Joined April 2009
Infrared vision for the mass market with Stratio at #ures13
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Asthma - clinicians have no data, parents have no control and kids have no incentive. Now comes GekoCap. #ures13
50% of asthma cases are preventable. Who knew? #ures13
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Never worry about locking your keys in your car again. Lock and unlock your car from your smartphone via Carknow. #ures13
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Avacar - duplicating your vehicle (at least the informatics) in the cloud. New term to me! #ures13
Feature/product/company. Lots of university technology falsl into the feature category #ures13
Is there a "leasing" or subscription model for other hardware products? Netflix for batteries? #ures13
Boston has a labor pool for robotics - ME, EE and software #ures13
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Financing door is not closed to hardware companies. But it's still hard - have to answer the how much, how long, how big questions. #ures13
Answer - build a consumer products company. Sorry b2b, you've got no shot. #ures13
How do you bring sexy back to hardware companies??? #ures13
"Hardware companies are just more complicated and errors are more costly" tom princince #ures13
Can a robotics company be a platform company? Pick a vertical to target and prove the robot can solve a problem in the real world. #ures13
Could 3d printing be the "app store" for for hardware? #ures13
Some hardware (eg iPhone) acts as the "great enabler" of hardware/software companies since there is so much existing functionality. #ures13
Hearing about how to build a hardware/software company at #ures13
What haps in the next fin round after crowdfunding? Still developing as rules are finalized but critical for entrepr to know #tcncrowd
"Crowdfunding = modern Amish barn raising" @cmirabile #tcncrowd
Crowdfunding, democratizing the LOCATION of innovation #tcncrowd