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Strong technical teams can get stuck solving the wrong problem, or building a more general/elegant solution than is truly necessary for the problem at hand. Thi
by Eridrus 8y ago
Strong technical teams can get stuck solving the wrong problem, or building a more general/elegant solution than is truly necessary for the problem at hand. This is particularly likely to affect teams with a lot of folks from academia.
But if you don't have any particular edge in this space, why do you want to get into it? Why would customers buy from you rather than the other teams?
- hookiepookie 8y agoSounds reasonable, but the question is whether building the elegant and user-oriented solution is really such a hard problem if you can do engineering very well. Any case studies or historical examples?
- Eridrus 8y agoI see the problem as difficult in the same way that losing weight is difficult: we know how to do it, it's relatively straight forward, you just have to really want it and commit to it for extended periods of time. I'm sure you can find plenty of startup materials that talk about how it's important to look for a problem and build a solution, rather than building a solution in search of a problem.