Startups, unfortunately, punish effort that doesn’t yield results. In fact, the biggest source of waste in a startup is building something nobody wants. While in an academic R&D lab, creation for creation’s sake will often get you praise, in a startup, it will often put you out of business.
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To succeed in academia, you need to build things that please your customer, its just that your customer is a funding agency and/or your community. There are many, many publications that nobody sites, which is the equivalent of products nobody buys.
Yes, thank you! That was exactly my reaction. I don't believe that you should reward hard work for hard work's sake alone. You should reward purposeful hard work that yields beneficial results.
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