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It's also unwise when your concept probably isn't even theoretically possible. You can definitely bite off more than you can chew with software, but most probl
by TillE 10y ago
It's also unwise when your concept probably isn't even theoretically possible.
You can definitely bite off more than you can chew with software, but most problems are actually solvable.
- duaneb 10y ago> It's also unwise when your concept probably isn't even theoretically possible. If the concept is easier and cheaper blood tests, I think we can solve that. If the concept is testing with a given volume of arbitrary blood, you've dug yourself your own grave.
- petra 10y ago>> easier and cheaper blood tests, Cheaper isn't enough to drive enough demand against the competition, because of insurance. So they got pushed towards easier, i.e. no pain finger prick, which was their downfall.
- gnipgnip 10y agoI'm not familiar with medicine; was this not known in the field ? Surely a student from Stanford, who I hear was also doing research at NUS, should have had access to enough advisers who could've averred that to her (before the company took off) ?
- maverick_iceman 10y agoA lot of her professors in Stanford told her that her vision is not possible. Of course she didn't listen to them.
- partycoder 10y agoHow companies see themselves: Disruptive next-gen mobile VR social network startup powered by serverless machine learning and blockchains implemented by engineers/adept hikers fed exclusively with gluten free organic kale/tofu/quinoa salads and kombucha. What they really are: Death march ran by Steve Jobs' cultists/buzzword collectors solving problems that nobody has in a way they don't really understand implemented by overworked depressed people that drink themselves into oblivion to cope with technical debt.