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Hardware is difficult. Investors are wary of difficult problems. They will invest if the problem is difficult and they think they are speaking to a team of peop
by tonylemesmer 11y ago
Hardware is difficult. Investors are wary of difficult problems. They will invest if the problem is difficult and they think they are speaking to a team of people who can deliver the technology to market no matter what. Lots of good inventors are terrible implementers.
If the invention is good but the team seems incapable that would be a reason for non-investment.
Also - "hard tech" seems like the wrong thing to be aiming for. There are lots of hard problems to solve with simple tech and disrupting markets. Are these not valuable targets?
- Naritai 11y agoThe article, along with the zeitgeist that it refers to, is that all SV has been thinking about for the last ~5 years has been "simple tech and disrupting markets", at the expense of developing real technology.
- tonylemesmer 11y agoSimple tech and simple problems are not the same thing. SV has been going after simple (or non existent) problems.