On 05/21/2012 05:29 PM, Matthew Pitts wrote:
There are many perfectly good products that can't support a business, and if you try to make them in a business, you are bound to fail. One of the reasons that TAPR has succeeded where others have not is that they don't try to do this as a business.Elecraft is another name that comes to mind (I have an Elecraft K2 in my hamshack), although I think I understand the general meaning behind what Kristoff wrote; there are a lot of projects that don't succeed because the people doing them don't understand the subtle nuances of running a business and they get discouraged enough to just give up.
My favorite example is the web. Autodesk bought Ted Nelson's Xanadu project and tried to make the web, spending at least 10 Million dollars and probably a lot more. Tim Berners-Lee succeeded in making the web because unlike Ted, Tim didn't try to build in a way to monetize it.
Thanks
Bruce
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