Monday was a great day for Dave Karp, the founder and patriarch of a mini-empire of San Francisco hardware stores. Karp turned 96 that day and spent it visiting the family-owned Cole Hardware stores ...

The other day, I got a note from a longtime reader (I won’t reveal their name as it might be embarrassing for them) about a hardware upgrade to a NetWare server. In a large network, with many servers, ...

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Hardware startups have many different opportunities today compared to what was available in the 1990s and early 2000s. By necessity, the hardware startups 20 years ago had to focus on research and ...