You don't have to answer if this is too intrusive.
What's your runway?
I can't speak for others. In my case, I need to know a company is going to be around for a minimum of five, and, ideally, at least ten, years before adopting certain types of products.
For example, while I love the idea of SPAN, there is no way I am ripping out my panel to install one until it feels just as safe (long-term support, reliability, maintenance, safety, etc.) as, for example, the choice to buy SMA solar inverters or APC UPS systems.
I think this product might fall under that category. Well, let's put it this way...it can't be a flash-in-the-pan product that will cease to have support in a year or two.
The tech world is littered with products from companies who got enough funding to get to launch, only to have to survive on sales in a "paycheck to paycheck" fashion, which, in hardware, can be incredibly difficult. I speak from experience on this, so, not throwing stones from a glass house...I've been there and have the scars to prove it. Doing hardware is brutal, which is why most VC's go "poof" and disappear from the room when you mention hardware is involved.
Again, I know this is a tricky or undesirable question. I get it.
You don't have to answer if this is too intrusive.
What's your runway?
I can't speak for others. In my case, I need to know a company is going to be around for a minimum of five, and, ideally, at least ten, years before adopting certain types of products.
For example, while I love the idea of SPAN, there is no way I am ripping out my panel to install one until it feels just as safe (long-term support, reliability, maintenance, safety, etc.) as, for example, the choice to buy SMA solar inverters or APC UPS systems.
I think this product might fall under that category. Well, let's put it this way...it can't be a flash-in-the-pan product that will cease to have support in a year or two.
The tech world is littered with products from companies who got enough funding to get to launch, only to have to survive on sales in a "paycheck to paycheck" fashion, which, in hardware, can be incredibly difficult. I speak from experience on this, so, not throwing stones from a glass house...I've been there and have the scars to prove it. Doing hardware is brutal, which is why most VC's go "poof" and disappear from the room when you mention hardware is involved.
Again, I know this is a tricky or undesirable question. I get it.