As I stated elsewhere, and as the grandparent illustrates, there's a place and a purpose for the 95% guy. The Wright Brothers clearly moved aviation forward in real and measurable ways. Compared to what came after the Wright Brothers, it would be generous to say that they got 95% of the way there.
If your goal is to prove a market quickly, the 95% guy is definitely good enough. Sure, you'd take a 100% guy if you could get 'em, but they're even harder to come by. Anecdotally, I know quite a few of the 95% guys myself, and they're doing really cool things.
But what they did in their initial stake is establish that flight is possible. They took strips of wood and cloth, and turned it into a machine, that flew, through the air.
Yeah, if your plane crashes because of propellor harmonics, that's a problem -- but that's a problem beyond the initial implementation. If you've invented the first airplane, that's a big problem to have, but if you've already demoed a working aircraft to the world, you've likely already moved past the 95% into a proven market, if not having fully established the market, and you can hire a team of engineers to fix the implementation details.
Either way, you illustrate a very important point, which is that where the boundary is drawn is crucial, and that definitely gets my upvote.
If your goal is to prove a market quickly, the 95% guy is definitely good enough. Sure, you'd take a 100% guy if you could get 'em, but they're even harder to come by. Anecdotally, I know quite a few of the 95% guys myself, and they're doing really cool things.
But what they did in their initial stake is establish that flight is possible. They took strips of wood and cloth, and turned it into a machine, that flew, through the air.
Yeah, if your plane crashes because of propellor harmonics, that's a problem -- but that's a problem beyond the initial implementation. If you've invented the first airplane, that's a big problem to have, but if you've already demoed a working aircraft to the world, you've likely already moved past the 95% into a proven market, if not having fully established the market, and you can hire a team of engineers to fix the implementation details.
Either way, you illustrate a very important point, which is that where the boundary is drawn is crucial, and that definitely gets my upvote.