You also need access to finance who grock the industry your working in - if you can, watch the documentary Micro Men there's a great scene where Cris Curry and

You also need access to finance who grock the industry your working in - if you can, watch the documentary Micro Men there's a great scene where Cris Curry and Hermann Hauser are trying to explain to some local clueless bank manger that they want to build a personnel computer (the Acorn Atom)