Bing Fund | Microsoft incubator. 500 Startups. TechStars. Blog. Today we welcome an exceptional group of hardware and Internet of Things focused startups into the 2015 R/GA Accelerator. This talented group of entrepreneurs has come from around the world to join us in NYC for an action packed 15 weeks.
By combining R/GA’s expertise around innovation, technology and design with the mentorship-driven model and entrepreneurial network of Techstars, we offer a game-changing advantage to hardware and IoT focused startups. The 2013 program was a huge success and we have set the bar high for this new class of startups. I’m looking forward to seeing how the 2015 class develop their businesses and I’m honored to be part of this journey with them. Astro – New York, NY Astro is creating an automated home system of devices that requires no installation, no new infrastructure, and no new wireless networks – making it the simplest platform on the market. Bitfinder – Seoul, SK / San Francisco, CA Chargifi – London, UK Diagenetix, Inc – Honolulu, HI Latch – Washington, DC. Yaniv.0.0.1. Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one’s ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one’s own. [wikipedia] Living outside the US, I am often frustrated by the evident lack of awareness to the existence of any other geographic location displayed by many US-originated web & mobile companies.
You could claim that the North American market is so large that a company does not need to look elsewhere for potential customers. To this, I would answer: Manners. To help our American friends with this challenge, I figured it’d be useful to create a check list. Implement a Countries list This is the simplest of them all. You will find the HTML code to implement this here. Not all Countries have States Zip code. It’s cool that you want to validate my zip code. UTF-what? Storing data anywhere? When storing English text, UTF-8 has no overhead compared to ASCII. International Phone Numbers If you do not, I will lie. US AppStore That’s it. Y Combinator.
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