[ilikehurdles]

Drugs/medicine (both research and manufacturing). The pockets of potential pharma clients are immensely deep while the fields are largely dominated by haphazard taped-together tools consisting of paper, excel, and visualbasic, handled by outsourced contractors and constrained IT departments. If you can shave off some time to get drugs to market using modern technology you will enjoy financial success.

I imagine that technology in any kind of manufacturing or mining field is going to be similar or predominately dominated by one or two big players that haven’t faced an innovative competitor in decades.

[elliekelly]

> the fields are largely dominated by haphazard taped-together tools consisting of paper, excel, and visualbasic, handled by outsourced contractors and constrained IT departments.

Ditto for Wall Street. The “innovation” tends to sit on top of woefully outdated systems rather than replace them.