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by nostrademons
3958 days ago
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Curious what the endgame looks like for hardware startups that fail? One of the things that appeals to me about software startups is that if they don't work out, I've learned a lot of valuable technical skills that there's a market for. I can easily do some consulting or get a job with a fast-growing company to replenish the bank account, and then try again if I have another idea. Is there the same transferability with hardware startups? Do other companies love to hire failed hardware entrepreneurs the way they usually like to hire failed software entrepreneurs, or do you just write off the money and time spent on the startup as a dream forgotten? |
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This isn't my first rodeo, but I usually just write off failed start-ups in general as dreams forgotten (and boy do I have a lot of forgotten dreams). I obviously gained a lot of technical knowledge: how USB works, packet formats, some hardware engineering, driver programming, etc. But unless I ever get a job writing low-level code for hardware devices, I doubt I'll ever use that knowledge again.
Who knows, maybe for another hardware start-up?