There was quite a bit of buzz around the TandemLaunch office this morning following some big acquisition news over the last 24 hours: Intel acquired the smartwatch maker Basis for… Read more How long will wearables be their own product category? →
It’s time to make an introduction between two groups of people who ought to get along very well. Physiotherapists, athletic trainers, occupational therapists- I’d like to formally introduce you to the Quantified Self movement, which could help solve of the hardest problems you collectively deal with. Quantified Self thinkers and entrepreneurs, I’d like you to meet your biggest challenge so far- how to transform the rehabilitation community for the better, and make a significant positive difference in patients’ lives. The problem: rehab is hard. People get injured every day. They… Read more Quantified Self, meet the Rehabilitation community →
I read a very interesting post on TechCrunch yesterday that made me think about wearable tech. It’s short and sweet, and brought up old thoughts I’ve had about some of… Read more Touch screens in cars: a lesson for wearable tech →
Someone asked me an interesting question the other day: “What was the most entrepreneurial situation you’ve ever experienced?” I suspect, from the nature of our prior conversation, that they were… Read more On entrepreneurial situations →
To all our readers, Happy New Year, and I hope many of you enjoyed CES 2014! Exhibitions like CES are a great way to see sneak previews of what new, up-and-coming technology might be ‘the next big thing’. So it’s worth reminding ourselves that identifying the mega-wave of tomorrow isn’t necessarily finding the fanciest, flashiest, most feature-laden products being launched today. In my opinion, one of the most insightful and fascinating mantras for anticipating new markets and trends came from Chris Dixon a few years ago, when he wrote: “The… Read more From the TandemLaunch blog: CES, TandemLaunch, and Cool Toys →
It’s been nearly two months since the beginning of our incubation partnership with TandemLaunch, and Backtrack has made some nice progress. We’re still partly in stealth mode as we work… Read more Update from the Backtrack team →
Happy 2014! I hope this coming year will bring as many exciting changes and opportunities as the last year did, and that the Backtrack / TandemLaunch partnership will continue to flourish.… Read more 2014: Caffeine counting resumption! →
This past Tuesday, Roz Warren (who writes for the NYTimes, HuffPost, and various other places) published this quite entertaining and 100% accurate story in the Times about back issues. Roz opens with a quick test that I may have to use in pitches from now on (with due credit, of course): “Are you the kind of person who will develop back problems? Take this easy test: 1. Are you alive? 2. Are you getting older? 3. Do you ever pick things up? If you answered yes to any of these… Read more Will you develop back problems? A simple test from Roz Warren →
