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If you thought your startup was taking a while to get going, I watched a demo of this product (to riotous applause) happen in 2005. I think they started taking
by patio11 11y ago
If you thought your startup was taking a while to get going, I watched a demo of this product (to riotous applause) happen in 2005. I think they started taking commercial orders sometime before '06.
Here's their financial results from two weeks ago, which if you read not-even-that-closely will suggest a few of the ways the Japanese startup ecosystem is borked.
http://www.cyberdyne.jp/company/download/20151113_financialresultssummary1.pdf http://www.cyberdyne.jp/company/download/20151113_financialr...
- teacup50 11y agoBorked? They're building robots, not bingo card webapps. I'd say the "Japense startup ecosystem" is doing fine.
- rgbrenner 11y ago2005 would be about 7 years after the first prototype. He says he started working on it in 1989: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(robot) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(robot)
- icegreentea 11y agoI don't know why you want to call it borked... Their financials show sales going back to 2013, they're selling product that isn't exactly as easy to buy as SaaS or really any software. I mean, it is slow, but I don't think its outrageously slow.