I'm somewhat confused by the whole premise. You ran a small scale test to see if your business idea would work, it didn't, and then you decided to pump $300k in

I'm somewhat confused by the whole premise. You ran a small scale test to see if your business idea would work, it didn't, and then you decided to pump $300k into it. While it's always interesting to read about how people build things, didn't you consider figuring out a business model that works first?