The BEEcube Story: Lessons Learned from Running a FPGA Startup for the Past 7 Years

Abstract

After running BEEcube Inc for the past 7 years, I learned many lessons the hard way as an entrepreneur fresh out of engineer school. Behind the glory of being the #9 fastest growing private company in Silicon Valley in 2013, there were many untold stories about our FPGA technology based startup company. A startup company is where dreams start by smart people, and also where harsh reality squashes them. This is not one of those "unicorn" billion-dollar-valuation-in-18-month stories, but rather a bootstrap startup manage to find it's own pot of gold under the rainbow.