Let me just put it out for my own sake.
Building a business that does R&D to production is super hard. It will take time. You won't have early stage enough proofs to get funding. Hiring will be challenging since salaries are seriously inflated these days. Then there will come the chicken-egg issue between customers, suppliers and investment at early stage. Customers will need good manufacturing capacity from you (they're right!), suppliers won't entertain you unless you have large volumes, to get the investment: you need to have confidence from customers.
It gets harder with time. I do think that's why we say that organisations evolve. You will be facing regular challenges but the key is finding the solutions. Moving one step everyday: believe me this is what it takes. We did find suppliers after many rejections who gave us 1 units for prototyping, now also giving significant volumes. We did found customers who believed in our tech, tested with us, validated and placed orders. We were lucky to enough to find investors who trusted the deeptech process that it does take time.
Deeptech is less understood space. I will force you to put your time in talking to customers and perfecting your technology. In B2B business where you have limited customers, you can't go in without complete products.
On top it all, build genuine relationships. Treat everyone as your partners, make them feel they're are your partners. Trust them in your process. Don't just share the good news but also share the bad ones. You wouldn't get far without customers, suppliers, investors, your team. Appreciate little moments and fight for every problem you face.
Build your 300. Its doable.
@nextdoorhari@PritnRandom Hey Hari,
We do have the same under design phase, with surveys on ground... Would love to tell you more, if it interests you!
Lets connect in DM.
@atalovesyou@dprank@kingofknowwhere I can completely agree on the current trend, but why only defence tech? Clean Tech and Consumer tech is in high demand from India to the world. Also being an energy surplus and self reliant on it, scales the game further
Thank you now, in future and forever to the men & women of our security forces.
And to your families.
No matter how many times we say this, it won’t be enough. 🇮🇳🙏🏽
Creating a hardware community for the city, where experts, veterans, think tanks, and even component market places, small grant givers, experimenting places, etc can be a 1st step. Imagine every tier 2 - tier 3 indian cities having this...
Hardware community, how do we help out these kids?
Internships would be nice. Or if you could help with some of their hardware components.
They’ve built Hexapods, Underwater UAVs, quadcopter drones, fixed wing drones.
Pretty skilled imo. They lack resources & guidance rn.
@prakdadlani It seems quite interesting and feels exciting too. There are many such products that are daily and widely used utilities, from kitchen appliances to consumer electronics. We must give it a shot.
@kmr_dilip Deeptech and building core technologies starts, from going backward (re-engineering). At Eco Impulse we helps Solar plants Harness more Energy. Soon moving to AI automation helping solar plants with predictive maintenance. We are raising funds and would love to tell you more.
.@naval: Look at reality the way it is. Try to take yourself out of the equation.
“Labels like pessimist, optimist, cynic, introvert, extrovert—these are very self limiting. Humans are very dynamic.
There are times when you feel like being introverted. There are times when you feel like being extroverted. There are contexts in which you’ll be pessimistic. There are contexts in which you’ll be optimistic.
Leave all those labels alone. It’s better just to look at the problem at hand. Look at reality the way it is. Try to take yourself out of the equation, in a sense.
Obviously you’re involved. But motivated reasoning is the worst kind of reasoning. You’re not going to find truth through highly motivated reasoning.
You have to be objective. And objective means trying to take yourself out of it as much as possible, or at least your personality out of it as much as possible.
And so to the extent you run with this thick identity and personality, it’s going to cloud your judgment. It’s going to try and lock you into the past.
If you say, ‘I’m a depressed, unhappy person—I’m going to be unhappy.’ That’s a way of locking yourself into your past. Even saying, ‘I have trauma, I have PTSD,’ yeah, you feel something—there are memories, there are flashes, there are occasional bad feelings.
But don’t define yourself by it because then you’ll lock it into your identity and you’re just going to loop on it.
It’s better to stay flexible because reality is always changing and you have to be able to adapt to it. Adaptation is also intelligence, adaptation is survival. Adaptation is kind of how you’re here. You’re here because you’re an adapter and your ancestors were adapters.
So to adapt you’ll have to see things clearly and if you’re seeing them through your own identity, it’s going to cloud your judgment.”