I worked for a short while in gaming hardware design at IBM before starting 8aweek. From what I've seen and heard hardware startups take a LOT more money and h

I worked for a short while in gaming hardware design at IBM before starting 8aweek. From what I've seen and heard hardware startups take a LOT more money and have some major risk. I would really be weary of trying to start a hardware startup. You have to be a known expert, well connected, and have a good business team on your side. Web startups have an insanely smaller barrier of entry. So if you want to start your own, I would definitely do a web startup. If you're just going to join one then I guess I would go with whichever idea I was more passionate about.