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Real world problems need real world solutions with real world money. Designing a physical product, which can be manufacturer and has a healthy margin for a bus
by eande 16y ago
Real world problems need real world solutions with real world money.
Designing a physical product, which can be manufacturer and has a healthy margin for a business to survive will take some invest money. There had been exceptions, but usually you will need a couple hundred thousand dollar to get there and at the same time yo need protect your product with IP.
Once you reached that point you are in a symmetric market, where a product gets exchanges for cost plus profit. It will always be a more linear curve on profit. On the other side software and internet companies in high demand have this hockey stick potential, which makes it so attractive to investors.
So hardware is hard, because it has just a much higher barrier to entry and at the same time it offers less sexy chart types. The number of hardware companies are far less compared to a person with a computer and internet who could be a software or internet company.