The Cost Of Doing Business

Chris is on hotel Wifi, so really he's talking to Dave on an app via his phone and then recording locally.
Is there an uncanny valley in hardware?
Altium bought Octopart and Ciiva.
Dave predicted that they would in a blog post a few months back when Altium raised more money.
Another potential acquisition would be Polar Instruments, makers of SI tools.
Gowin is a company out of China manufacturing FPGAs. They are partnering with Synopsis (makers of Synplify Pro).
Chris is intimidated by tcl scripts.
Synplify Pro was also used as part of the A ctel / Microsemi tool chain.
Chris thinks this is similar to the ESP8266 as it opens up the marketplace for more
How much use will there be for FPGAs past eduction for most users? Jack Gassett was on Embedded.fm talking about eduction.
The PSOC family is interesting and has some reconfigurable logic.
Adafruit hit $33 million and did so by bootstrapping.
Tim Ferriss had the founder of Evernote on his show who was talking about the Dunbar number (NOT Godwin's Law)
Silicon valley perks have started to make their way into non SV companies.
Timesheets are evil, especially when you're socially pressured to up your hours per week.
Dave's past company was doing production in china and spent $10K on internet access over a phone. The cost of doing business.

Thanks to Pictures of Money for the money jar picture.

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