[lbriner]

I think a similar issue is rushing to fix something in an industry you have no experience of. You might not think you need to know about property before you start an AirBnB but actually they had to learn from mistakes and wrong assumptions, fortunately they were agile enough to pivot.

Engineers often assume that everything is as simple as "my product can do that, please pay me money" when there are a raft of other blockers in certain industries, some already mentioned above. The more you understand these before you start, the less time you spend trying to understand e.g. why a hospital won't just buy some random new product even though it promises to fix a big problem.

[0xferruccio]

Asking questions and trying to sell something is an amazing learning experience.

Especially if you don’t have experience in an industry the best thing you can do to learn is to try and sell something or schedule calls with people in the industry.