AshishGarage Startups
Recently Google purchased an old garage in Silicon valley, its original birthplace. Even Hp had paid $1.7 million for its Birthplace.
A look at tech ventures that started from garages.
Hewlett Packard.
In 1938, Dave Packard left his GE Job to join his friend William Hewlett In California to start a business. Armed with limited budget he choose an old house with 12x18 Sq ft garage for his stay and office, at a monthly rental of $45.The duo developed numerous device prototypes here including diathermy machine for clinic, control for AC and an electric eye for automatic toilet flushing., before building the famous radio oscillator that Launched HP. It is regarded as the "Birthplace of silicon Valley"
Apple
In summer 1975,When Steve Jobs was working at Atari, an HP engineer, Styephen Wozniak visited Atari to demonstrate a computer he had developed. Atari management didn’t find the idea commercially attractive. Jobs of course thought otherwise. He invited Woz to his house and the duo began working on the PC. Job's father vacated his garage. The huge wooden bench in the garage became an assembly line for the Single motherboard Apple I.
Google
In 1998 , two Stanford grads, Sergy Brin and Larry Page, took a 1900 sq ft garage-cum-house in silicon valley on a $ 1700 monthly rent from Susan Wojcicki. It became second home for them. For days they would think only of "search engine" whether eating or bathing. The duo freely used Susan's bathtub and ransacked her refrigerator for quick grubs. That explains why Google offers free food to employees even today.
HCL
In seventies DCM developed a microprocessor but abandoned the project apprehending MRTP compliance hassles. But six DCM employees-Shiv Nadar, Arjun Malhotra, Subhas Arora, Yogesh Vaidya, DS Puri and Ajai Chowdhry - decided to pursue the idea. All resigned on the same day. Borrowing money from relatives the six men converted Malhotra’s grandmothers barsati into an office. The rest is history. The team built the PC which got the reviews from the IITs and HCL was launched In 1976
Borland
A French student Philippe Kahn developed portions of "Turbo". while at Switzerland’s ETH, the Swiss federal institute of technology. After post graduation he moved to US as tourist in 1980.being a foreign national, his employment prospects looked bleak., SO he started offering consultancy services working from a garage in California and also resumed the language development. In 1983 he setup Borland. Within 2 yrs, the company launched Turbo Pascal and Sidekick
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A look at tech ventures that started from garages.
Hewlett Packard.
In 1938, Dave Packard left his GE Job to join his friend William Hewlett In California to start a business. Armed with limited budget he choose an old house with 12x18 Sq ft garage for his stay and office, at a monthly rental of $45.The duo developed numerous device prototypes here including diathermy machine for clinic, control for AC and an electric eye for automatic toilet flushing., before building the famous radio oscillator that Launched HP. It is regarded as the "Birthplace of silicon Valley"
Apple
In summer 1975,When Steve Jobs was working at Atari, an HP engineer, Styephen Wozniak visited Atari to demonstrate a computer he had developed. Atari management didn’t find the idea commercially attractive. Jobs of course thought otherwise. He invited Woz to his house and the duo began working on the PC. Job's father vacated his garage. The huge wooden bench in the garage became an assembly line for the Single motherboard Apple I.
In 1998 , two Stanford grads, Sergy Brin and Larry Page, took a 1900 sq ft garage-cum-house in silicon valley on a $ 1700 monthly rent from Susan Wojcicki. It became second home for them. For days they would think only of "search engine" whether eating or bathing. The duo freely used Susan's bathtub and ransacked her refrigerator for quick grubs. That explains why Google offers free food to employees even today.
HCL
In seventies DCM developed a microprocessor but abandoned the project apprehending MRTP compliance hassles. But six DCM employees-Shiv Nadar, Arjun Malhotra, Subhas Arora, Yogesh Vaidya, DS Puri and Ajai Chowdhry - decided to pursue the idea. All resigned on the same day. Borrowing money from relatives the six men converted Malhotra’s grandmothers barsati into an office. The rest is history. The team built the PC which got the reviews from the IITs and HCL was launched In 1976
Borland
A French student Philippe Kahn developed portions of "Turbo". while at Switzerland’s ETH, the Swiss federal institute of technology. After post graduation he moved to US as tourist in 1980.being a foreign national, his employment prospects looked bleak., SO he started offering consultancy services working from a garage in California and also resumed the language development. In 1983 he setup Borland. Within 2 yrs, the company launched Turbo Pascal and Sidekick
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