A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. While entrepreneurship refers to all new businesses, including self-employment and businesses that never intend to become registered, startups refer to new businesses that intend to grow large beyond the solo founder. At the beginning, startups face high uncertainty and have high rates of failure, but a minority of them do go on to be successful and influential. Some startups become unicorns; that is privately held startup companies valued at over US$1 billion.
Startups typically begin by a founder (solo-founder) or co-founders who have a way to solve a problem. The founder of a startup will begin market validation by problem interview, solution interview, and building a minimum viable product (MVP), i.e. a prototype, to develop and validate their business models. The startup process can take a long period of time (by some estimates, three years or longer), and hence sustaining effort is required. Over the long term, sustaining effort is especially challenging because of the high failure rates and uncertain outcomes. Having a business plan in place outlines what to do and how to plan and achieve an idea in the future. Typically, these plans outline the first 3 to 5 years of your business strategy.
Models behind startups presenting as ventures are usually associated with design science. Design science uses design principles considered to be a coherent set of normative ideas and propositions to design and construct the company's backbone. For example, one of the initial design principles is "affordable loss".
Gustare cibo fresco e caldo in movimento è una sfida per molti backpackers, studenti, viaggiatori e impiegati. Gli elettrodomestici da cucina sono ingombranti da spostare e i frigoriferi tradizionali possono svolgere il lavoro solo per un periodo limitato. Steasy è un piroscafo innovativo, portatile e intelligente che osa risolvere questo problema. Con Steasy puoi gustare cibi freschi e caldi ovunque e in qualsiasi momento.
Il Comet Linethrower 250 è un lancialinee autonomo a colpo singolo dotato di un meccanismo di percussore integrato. Anche con poca formazione, l'operatore può indirizzare questo dispositivo con un alto grado di precisione, rendendolo adatto a tutte le applicazioni di lancio della linea in mare. Offrendo una portata da 230 a 250 m, il Comet Linethrower 250 garantisce una traiettoria di volo estremamente precisa anche con forti venti laterali.
Camminare o andare in bicicletta è un ottimo modo per risparmiare denaro e vivere uno stile di vita più sostenibile. Ma può presentare una propria serie di problemi. Questo è particolarmente vero se vuoi andare al lavoro a piedi o in bicicletta. Se hai pendii ripidi o una lunga distanza da percorrere, è probabile che ti ritroverai inzuppato di sudore quando arriverai dove stai andando.
Le lampadine standard tendono ad essere un po' noiose. Smartbunch ha intenzione di cambiarlo con i suoi triangoli LED modulari che ti consentono di progettare le tue lampade: crea una lampada da scrivania, una lampada a sospensione dal soffitto o qualsiasi altra forma 3D che ti viene in mente. L'innovativa costruzione modulare ti permette di costruire la forma che desideri. Ci vogliono pochi secondi per assemblare una forma: basta unire i triangoli e si agganciano magneticamente in posizione.
Per anni, i progettisti hanno utilizzato diverse forme di ingegneria e design per consentire alle sedie a rotelle di salire e scendere i gradini. Scewo ha portato a termine il compito con la sua carrozzina motorizzata Bro! Il design futuristico di Scewo rende la sua sedia a rotelle maneggevole e semplice da usare per la vita di tutti i giorni. Scewo Bro è un modello aggiornato e raffinato della prima generazione Scalevo dell'azienda. L'azienda, con sede a Zurigo, Scewo, distingue la sua sedia a rotelle Bro dal resto, con grandi ruote e un design modulare.
Portare un fresco per una giornata in spiaggia o un picnic in riva al lago fa parte di ciò che rende una giornata estiva così magica. Sei lontano dalla tua cucina e dal tuo frigorifero, ma puoi comunque goderti bevande ghiacciate, gelati e altri cibi refrigerati a tuo piacimento. Uno svantaggio di un refrigeratore tradizionale, tuttavia, è che si basa sul ghiaccio, che inevitabilmente lascia tutto nel refrigeratore bagnato, fradicio e miserabile! Inoltre, il dispositivo di raffreddamento è pesante e il suo contenuto è più difficile da trovare.
Molte persone sono colpevoli di immaginare l'inquinamento atmosferico su scala globale prestando poca attenzione a come li colpisce come individui. Sfortunatamente, soffrono di condizioni respiratorie acute e croniche dovute all'inalazione costante di aria inquinata. Peggiora durante l'estate quando all'elenco dei problemi aggiungi la fatica per rimanere rilassato e a tuo agio.
Il fumo di scarico è un modo in cui la tua auto comunica con te per dire cosa c'è che non va. Di solito, il fumo che viene emesso è nero, bianco, grigio e blu. I gas di scarico sono un modo vecchio stile per rilevare i sintomi di problemi, ad es. grandi quantità di fumo nero possono significare che l'EGR è bloccato ed è finito il rifornimento.
An engineer was enjoying his very first vacation ever, relaxing on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. It was wonderful, the experience of his life. He was being waited on hand and foot. But a hurricane came, and the ship went down instantly. The man found himself swept up onto the shore of an island. There was nothing else anywhere to be seen. No person, no supplies, nothing. The man looked around. There were some bananas and coconuts, but that was it. He was desperate, and forlorn, but decided to make the best of it. So for the next four months he ate bananas, drank coconut juice and mostly looked to the sea hoping for a ship to come to his rescue. One day, as he was lying on the beach stroking his beard and looking for a ship, he spotted movement out of the corner of his eye. Could it be true, was it a ship? No. From around the corner of the island came a rowboat. But in it was the most gorgeous woman he had ever seen, or at least seen in four months. She was tall, tanned, and her blond hair flowing in the sea breeze gave her an almost ethereal quality. She spotted him waving and yelling and screaming to get her attention and rowed her boat towards him. In disbelief, he asked, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" She said, "I rowed from the other side of the island. I landed on this island when my cruise ship sank." "Amazing," he said, "I didn't know anyone else had survived. How many of you are there? Where, did you get the rowboat? Wow, you were really lucky to have a rowboat wash-up with you!" "It is only me." she said, "And the rowboat didn't wash up, nothing else did." "Well then," asked the man, "how did you get the rowboat?" "I made the rowboat out of raw material that I found on the island", replied the woman. "The oars were whittled from Gum tree branches, I wove the bottom from Palm branches, and the sides and stern came from a Eucalyptus tree." "But," asked the man, "what about tools and hardware, how did you do that?" "Oh, no problem," replied the woman. "On the south side of the island there is a very unusual stratum of alluvial rock exposed. I found that if I fired it in my kiln it would melt into forgeable ductile iron. I used that for tools, and used the tools to make the hardware. But, enough of that," she said. "Where do you live?" The engineer was forced to confess that he had been sleeping on the beach. "Well, let's row over to my place," she said. So they both got into the rowboat and left for her side of the island. The woman rowed them around to a wharf that led to the approach to her place. She tied up the rowboat with a beautifully woven hemp rope. They walked up a stone walk and around a palm tree. There stood an exquisite bungalow painted in blue and white. "It's not much," she said, "but I call it home. After a while exchanging stories, the woman asked, "Have you always had a beard?" "No, I was clean shaven all of my life, even on the cruise ship," he replied. "Well if you would like to shave, there is a men's razor upstairs in the bathroom." The man, no longer questioning anything, went upstairs to the bathroom. There in the cabinet, was a razor made from a bone handle, two shells honed to a hollow ground edge were fastened on to its end inside of a swivel mechanism. The man shaved, showered and went back down stairs. "You look great," said the woman, "I think I will go up and slip into something more comfortable." After a short time, the woman returned wearing fig leaves strategically positioned and smelling faintly of gardenia. "Tell me," she asked, "we have both been out here for a very long time with no companionship. Have you been lonely, is there anything that you really miss? Something that all men need, and women, too. Something that it would be really nice to have right now." "Yes there is, " the man replied, as he moved closer to the woman and fixed a winsome gaze upon her. "Tell me, do you have an Internet connection?"
