智能手表大战,黑马先拔头筹_BEC初级作文

智能手表大战,黑马先拔头筹

Not everyone shared Migicovsky's enthusiasm for wearable computing then. Early on, Micicovsky had trouble generating interest from many venture capitalists who were reluctant to invest in a hardware company with the exception of $375,000 raised from four angel investors, including Tim Draper, co-founder of the Menlo Park, Calif.-based venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. "I was thinking, 'what happens in a post-Apple world,' and I decided it was watches and glasses," Draper explains. And while Pebble first passed through Paul Graham's famed YCombinator, the same startup incubator that yielded Airbnb and Dropbox, it wasn't until Kickstarter that Pebble really found its footing.

不过，并不是每个人都看好米基科夫斯基的可穿戴式计算机设备。最初，米基科夫斯基很苦恼无法赢得风险投资家们的欢心，这些人可不愿意向一家硬件新创企业投资。只有四位天使投资人向米基科夫斯基抛出了橄榄枝，其中包括蒂姆?德瑞普。他是加州门罗帕克市德丰杰风投基金（Draper Fisher Jurvetson）的联合创始人。他们一共投资375,000美元。德瑞普解释说：“我一直在思索什么洞悉能够称雄‘后苹果时代’，我的看法是手表和眼镜有望成为真命天子。”保罗?格雷厄姆创建的风险投资公司YCombinator极富盛名，曾孵化出创新公寓出租服务Airbnb和云存储技术公司Dropbox等新创企业。Pebble最初经过了YCombinator的孵化，但直到登陆Kickstarter，Pebble才真正得以立足。