For this technology to actually take off, an industry working group will need to be formed to promote and share it in the same way we have working groups for existing wireless charging techniques.
What good is a new wireless charging technique that doesn't come built into my iPhone or Android phone? If it isn't included in every phone and gadget no one is going to bother with it.
In the process of forming such a working group, some extremely smart people are going to take a very close look at this from both an engineering and business standpoint. If it isn't absolutely rock solid it is going to die.
Until a working group is formed to share this technology with the likes of Samsung, Apple, Sony (major hardware device manufacturers), you can pretty much discount it.
Ok, I realize it is cool now to tell everyone on the internet your business...but what you have written here could be interpreted as suggesting that this company is stupid for "dumping money into me when I have no product, no team, and no background experience." You are doing this in a post on Hacker News...which many, many, many people read.
Why are you sharing the exact names of both the company and the startup you work for? Do you think that some of the people at those companies may not read Hacker News?
Do yourself a favor and scrub this article of references to who you are talking about before you ruin this opportunity for yourself. If they believe you are someone who posts all their business dealings on the internet for everyone to see, they are not going to want to fund you anymore.
Thanks for the reply. I put up the names in case anyone had experience with them or was able to find more information on them than I could. I don't know the parent company very well (hopefully I will soon), but they've given me much more important information than this that they've told me not to disclose and I haven't. In hindsight, it was probably better not to include the company names, but I can't edit my post anymore. Lesson learned.
Every ounce of energy you put into a side project comes from your main job and is carved out of your free time and peace of mind. Period.
I used to think I could just contract on the side and make some good money. I did that for about 7 months...but every day you come home wanting to mentally relax...guess what? More work! Your weekends? More work too! Everyone has deadlines at their main job...now you have two deadlines! Deadlines when you are at work and deadlines when you get home.
I ultimately decided to never take any more side work (which might lead to passive income) simply because the mental toll it takes is harsh. Money is sort of not really just lying around on the ground...if it were that easy, some hacker in Russia who is out of work would figure out how to get it before you simply because they are desperate and you are just sort of doing this as a hobby.
Real success requires being pathologically driven to beat everyone or having some kind of advantage of everyone else.
I work with a very smart engineer who runs a full on side business which nets him a good amount of money. His day-to-day motivation is noticeably less than everyone else and his output is less...because he is dividing his time between work, side work, a child, a wife etc. He eventually just announced he was leaving to do his side project.
Yes you can do side work, but if you are any kind of regular adult your side projects will all be temporary unless you are willing to quit for them. The mental toll adds up.
For this technology to actually take off, an industry working group will need to be formed to promote and share it in the same way we have working groups for existing wireless charging techniques.
We already have the Wireless Power Consortium who currently foster the Qi inductive power standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_(inductive_power_standard). Same sort of deal.
What good is a new wireless charging technique that doesn't come built into my iPhone or Android phone? If it isn't included in every phone and gadget no one is going to bother with it.
In the process of forming such a working group, some extremely smart people are going to take a very close look at this from both an engineering and business standpoint. If it isn't absolutely rock solid it is going to die.
Until a working group is formed to share this technology with the likes of Samsung, Apple, Sony (major hardware device manufacturers), you can pretty much discount it.