Today's Entrepreneur: Hoang Nhu

Mitos Suson · January 26, 2015 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/3b49

No. 1 mistake: They underestimate the amount of energy.


Today's Entrepreneur is Hoang Nhu, Founder of KoolTechs, Inc. a company that has a mission to bring to the marketplace unique consumer and health & wellness products and inventions that enhance all aspects of everyday life. They are responsible for the products like “Open Me” Smart Bottle Cap, Vital Sign Monitoring Smart Plug, and Whole-house BTL mesh network. Nhu went to California Polytechnic University, in Pomona for his degree in ECE in 1984 and on 1989 he went to University of Washington for his MS in Electrical Engineering.

KoolTechs, Inc (currently in the top-15 semi-finalist) is competing in Vator Splash Health startup competition. The top six finalists will compete and present live on stage in front of several hundred tech influencers (CEOs, media and investors). 

Register early for the event here: vatorsplashhealth.com

Here's a little about Hoang:

I am a(n): Product guru

Companies I've founded or co-founded: KoolTechs Inc

Companies I work or worked for: Hewlett-Packard, KoolTechs Inc, Broadcom corporation

Achievements (products built, personal awards won): Product: KoolThings (successfully launched on KickStarter December 2013)

If you are an entrepreneur, why? I want to invent something cool.My favorite startups:Tesla, Uber, Pebble

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation? Your ideas can get ridiculed or praised as innovative by different people, one day to the next. Sometimes, even by the same person.

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make? They underestimate the amount of energy, time required to build a startup for the long term journey

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

  • The people behind the team and their complementary skills are a startup's utmost critical success factor. That is the reason for KoolTechs slogan : "Best of one, power of many." 
  • Learn to execute both "build a product"  and "build a business" , almost in parallel. 
  • Stay focused but prepare to be adaptive and flexible as technologies and product cycle are very dynamic nowadays.

Full Bio:

Thirty years of hands-on experience (HP, Broadcom, and startups) in state-of-the-art product innovation and development of digital signal processing algorithms, SoC System-on-Chip architecture/design, wireless, mobile HW/SW application platform, and emerging technologies. Continuous proven track record in taking innovative products from ideas to development, mass production and market commercialization. Result-driven leadership and proven ability to work with a small team as well as manage large hardware, software teams. Strong hands-on technical background with 11 issued patents and 10 pending patents.

To be featured on Today's Entrepreneur: Contact Mitos Suson at mitos@vator.tv

 

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We are a team of multidisciplinary visionaries and engineering veterans with over 90 years combined experience in wireless embedded system design and consumer hardware/firmware/app product development. Our mission is to bring to the marketplace unique consumer and health & wellness products and inventions that enhance all aspects of our everyday life.

Products:  “Open Me” Smart Bottle Cap, Vital Signs Sensor, Whole-house BTL mesh network (Products announced at IDG DEMO Fall 2014, San Jose, Ca)

  1. “Open Me” (Trademark) Smart Bottle Cap: Bluetooth Smart sensor in Bottle Cap detects when cap is opened (or when user forgets to open by certain time of day) , thereby monitors and reminds user to take medications.
  2. Vital Signs Sensor (embedded in Light switch):  when a finger is placed on the sensor, it records Vital Signs (heart rate, %02) and streams it live via Bluetooth Smart. The result can be correlated with Smart Bottle Cap events to show cause-effect relationship over a period of time.
    3. The same heart rate sensor also supports gesture recognition (for other home appliances control) which can be useful for the elderly or physically challenged patients.
  3. Whole-house Bluetooth mesh network software: extends the range coverage of Bluetooth Smart throughout the entire house. This patent-pending technology removes the short range limitation of BLE, thereby allowing existing 3rd-party BLE Wearables and BLE wellness & health devices including "OpenMe" Smart Bottle Cap to operate and be “within range” anywhere in the house.
  4. Beyond medication adherence, our platform of Smart Bottle Cap/ Whole House Bluetooth Smart Mesh Network/ Vital Signs Sensor creates a true solution for “Patient Centric Care”. 

Watch  OpenMe" Youtube video demo below: 

 

 

 

 

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Hoang Nhu

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30 years hands-on experience (HP, Broadcom, and startups) in product innovation, development of DSP algorithms, SoC System-on-Chip architecture/design, wireless, low-power sensors, mobile HW/SW platform. 11 issued patents and 10 pending patents.