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I’m tired of startups asking us to take the risk on their ‘pre-order’ products
- angersock 11y agoI have to disagree--even though it can be inconvenient, it is rather handy to do a kanban-ish approach to product development. With preorders in hand, they can more accurately judge their rate of adoption, and even get the operating capital to actually get the things built. The alternative model, where you have to go and pull in a whooole bunch of investing and loans, and then build a product, whole hog, and then figure out if anyone will actually buy is just tremendously inefficient. Sure, sometimes this means late products, and sometimes this means wasted money, but overall I think it's a marked improvement in the market. It's one of the only ways to get hardware startups to be as quick in development as their software counterparts.
- Red_Tarsius 11y agoThe writer seems completely detached from the reality of product development, while expressing the generic cry of consumer entitlement. This article is not worth reading.