Hardware is, err, hard. Scaling to the masses means reliability engineering and thoughts given to logistics, manufacturing, etc. Getting a version 1 out the do

Hardware is, err, hard. Scaling to the masses means reliability engineering and thoughts given to logistics, manufacturing, etc. Getting a version 1 out the door can be extremely expensive. Perhaps the revolution in China is changing this, making it much easier to build things in 10s and 100s. And any interesting product will also have software. This makes it a superset of software startups.