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So this man is spending 50K in molds alone and four people before he proves the viability of his business?. You don't need to make molds, printrbot started wit
by Htsthbjig 12y ago
So this man is spending 50K in molds alone and four people before he proves the viability of his business?.
You don't need to make molds, printrbot started without those, and you don't need four people for starting.
Another whining article:
http://www.3dprinterworld.com/article/can-we-get-wrench-crowdfunding-spigot http://www.3dprinterworld.com/article/can-we-get-wrench-crow...
A gem from it:"A suicidal price war has ensued, but unlike most price wars, this one does not necessarily benefit the consumer."
Of course it benefits the consumer, but does not for those selling cheap, like in any price war.
Companies already established have an advantage over new comers like in anything else. If you get late to the party, the party is gone.
I am engineer and entrepreneur, and I have designed my own 3D aluminum-steel printer from scratch in my spare time!! in less than a year. Most of the hard work is already done, a Prusa i3 structure is already designed and open. So are the extruder, hot ends, electronics.
If you create a new company, you need to provide value. Something unique that does not exist.
If you can't, just crying on Internet is useless. You are not entitled to have a business.
- DrewAllyn 12y agoThe price war doesn't benefit the consumer if too-low prices cause the company to go under before shipping any product.
- krschultz 12y agoI have a friend who has built a bunch of 3D printers from scratch (of his own design) as a hobby. Hobby != business. And it's not a price war unless you can buy the printers, what we have is a crowd funding war. I know a couple people that work at MakerBot. They're not dumb. The reason the printer keeps getting more expensive over time is because that's what it takes to make a nice one.