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To fund a software start-up you need 5 people and 5 laptops to get to tens of millions of value. To fund a similar sized hardware start-up you need a full lab
by Workaccount2 1y ago
To fund a software start-up you need 5 people and 5 laptops to get to tens of millions of value.
To fund a similar sized hardware start-up you need a full lab andddd already the proposition is dead.
- runlaszlorun 1y agoYou're completely ignoring the vast amounts thrown into a marketing funnel in an attempt to acquire customers for their usually meh products. And engineering teams usually scale up with revenue as well. I feel like your numbers are the myth that gets told not what actually often happens
- hengheng 1y agoI've seen US startup people deal with manufacturing. There is a class gap that leaves no real space for skilled blue-collar work to exist and also be business critical, and fully integrated into the team. That is how a three-week turnaround for a milled prototype part ends up being tolerated.