3 reasons why almost every VC investor passed on Zoom Startups can learn a lot about fundraising from the mistakes made around Zoom Zoom’s early days Yuan left his job at Cisco’s Webex to launch Zoom in 2011 as “Saasbee.” After the launch, heraised $3 million in seed fundingfrom Bill Tai, TEEC Angel Fund (now known as TSVC), Subrah Iyar, Matt Ocko, and Jim and Dan Scheinman. In December 2012, newly-renamed Zoom finally managed to close a$6 million Series A roundfrom Yahoo founder Jerry Yang and the strategic venture fundQualcomm Ventures, along with Iyar, Ocko, and Scheinman....

3 reasons why batteries will power our future trucks, not hydrogen fuel cells Battery technology is nearly ready As he alludes, around 80% of trucks, in the Netherlands at least, travel 750 km (470 miles) per day, at the very most. If you want to haul goods further than this, it starts to get expensive quickly as you’ll need to employ more drivers, and pay overtime. In reality, most trucks only need to be able to drive 750 km each day....

1. You want to work in tech, but not at our company At a startup, the first 20-30 employees are fundamental to the culture and success of the entire enterprise. A startup’s journey is saturated with challenges and difficulties and the thing that’s going to get us through it is purpose. If you don’t connect with our purpose, or you don’t feel it, that’s fine — but that probably means this isn’t the job for you....

Space just got a lot messier — and more dangerous. Russia has sparked outrage by shooting down one of its satellites in a missile test on Monday. The move has created an enormous quantity of orbital debris, jeopardized the safety of astronauts, and reignited fears about an arms race in space. Russia’s Defense Ministry has downplayed the risks of the operation, but there are good reasons to be concerned. Here are three of them:...

Lithium-ion batteries have played a vital role in the development of electric vehicles and we love them for that. But at the same time, lithium is expensive to produce, unstable in high temperatures, and a finite resource whose mining often comes with supply chain problems. Battery researchers and manufacturers have been assiduously searching for a more sustainable replacement. One intriguing alternative they’ve discovered is another chemical element: sodium. Why lithium has been dominating Lithium and sodium are neighbors in the periodic table, which basically means that they offer similar properties and can both be used as charge carriers in the battery cell....