HAX Partners HAX teams & friends China Manufacturing Hardware and random
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What is Onward
While Ben Joffe finishes his emails with ‘Cheers’, Cyril Ebersweiler ends all his emails, regardless of appropriateness with this.
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What is Nomiku
This company successfully funded $750k on Kickstarter, the most of any HAX alumni team
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What is Chinese New Year
This February 19th, 2015, Nearly everyone in China stops working for two weeks for this event.
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What is COGS
If you stepped onto the green subway train at Huaquian Rd heading towards Airport east, 15 minutes 43 seconds (7 stops away), you would arrive at this station.
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What is Bootloader
The first software that is loaded to your microcontroller when it starts up
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What is Japanese
If Ben Joffe had to be Asian he would want to be this nationality to be
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What is Opentrons and Petronics
Within HAX S5, these two teams have the longest company names
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What is Ultrasounds or Prenatal sex diagnosis
While this non-invasive procedure is typical in most countries, it is illegal in China for non-medical reasons. It is one of the policies with the aim of normalizing the sex ratio.
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What is Free On Board
The acronym for this is FOB which puts the responsibility of freight costs on the seller.
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What is Images/Diagrams
Attaching these to emails when communicating with factories drastically improves communication.
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What is 33
The number of times Atomman has revolved around the Sun.
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What is 8. (Dave 1, Dave 2, French Dave, Chinese Dave, Daniel, Dan, Drew, Deepak)
The number of names that start with “D” in HAX S5 (out of 31), including Drew.
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What is KFC
This fast food restaurant first came out in China with a translated advertising slogan of “eat your fingers off”
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What is Part Subsitutions
Chinese factories are notorious for doing this without notifying the customer, which allows the factories to source parts more cheaply, and affects the quality of the finished product.
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What is Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) AKA Bluetooth 4.0 AKA Bluetooth Smart
iPhone first supported this technology in the 4S in 2011 and Android 4.3 in 2013. This technology can dramatically improve battery life on some devices.
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Who is Duncan Turner
Prior to joining HAX, this person worked at CliQ.
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What is Indonesia
Steve Cho has spent total 2 years bumming around in all of these countries except for one: China, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Nepal.
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What is 3 kuai
The cost difference between choosing to take the blue one versus the red one and then theres the one that looks like it belongs in london.
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What is The worker’s bathroom
By visiting this area shared with other operators during work hours, visitors can get a deeper understanding of how a factory treats its workers.
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What is Brand
[Surprise question!] The goal is of this is to create one that is unique enough to be used as a generic. It is important not to attempt to line extend and dilute it.
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What is Business Law
Cyril concentrated on this major during his bachelors studies.
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What is Steve Cho
This HAX mentor is known as “Magic Mike”
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What is OCT
If you stepped onto the green subway train at Huaquian Rd heading towards Airport east, 15 minutes 43 seconds (7 stops away), you would arrive at this station.
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What is Adidas
In May 2003, Cyril had just taken a job with what shoe company to set up their 2nd concept store in France?
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What is JTAG
The common name for the IEEE 1149.1 Standard Access Port and Boundary-Scan Architecture.






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