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My father runs a company which has been in our family for 250 years. It weaves silk fabrics for luxurious furnitures for mansions and alikes (Versailles comes t
by jvzr 14y ago
My father runs a company which has been in our family for 250 years. It weaves silk fabrics for luxurious furnitures for mansions and alikes (Versailles comes to mind).
He's always told me that he'll never try to register its designs to any authority since the company's main competitors are the chinese, and that they do not care for forgein laws and registrations. Well, obviously.
Surely, this is not suitable to every businesses, but I couldn't think at the time that this would apply to the space industry as well.
- sounds 14y agoThat company should do well. Chinese competitors may copy a design and try to undersell you – but you're countering by selling to the high end market (like Apple does). I hope the company does well! The really hard part is the supply chain. For example, Apple was hit by the "bad cap" problem when they went with the cheaper caps (stolen formula): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague#Industrial_espionage_implicated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague#Industrial_esp... SpaceX appears to be producing so much of their design in-house that the suppliers don't yet play a major role. I'm going with the assumption SpaceX will be around long term, so that will be a challenge as they try to bring costs down even more. They're not selling to the high end market.