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The Tiko Printer: What Happens When You Innovate Too Much (hackaday.com)
17 points by bsilvereagle on Feb 28, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



> They had ordered their complete BOM before a prototype was finalized... They spent all their money buying components before their design was finalized. These aren’t poor engineering decisions, they’re poor business decisions.

Not having even a single prototype (even if you ignore the fact that ideally there should be multiple) done before ordering the parts for manufacturing is fundamental failure of engineering process, it is not a business decision failure.




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