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I liked the idea of Massdrop. I’m still not much into fountain pens, but the idea of fairly high quality/luxurious “enthusiast” items at relatively low prices still appeals to me. Where does one find that nowadays?
Drop ran into the problem every other high quality retailer/manufacturer did before it, when you sell good enough stuff, you don't get repeat business fast enough because the original is still working, and eventually fail due to lack of new buyers to sustain the business. I'm still using my Drop CTRL keyboard from 2018. I haven't bought another keyboard since then because it's a good keyboard. Going through my order…
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Large firms investing in early r&d happens regardless. It does not explain how you build new business on an idea you can’t convince large org politics to try. It’s also what Xerox and Bell labs were doing in the 70s and what Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft etc are doing today but it took smaller more nimble players to actually do anything with the research. Case in point: transformers came from Google.
Sure I agree and good points. But my view is moreso in the scale of VC operations being a symptom of excess speculation, and society would be better off with stable investments. They are poor stewards of capital, and subsidized by the federal reserve.
Drop ran into the problem every other high quality retailer/manufacturer did before it, when you sell good enough stuff, you don't get repeat business fast enough because the original is still working, and eventually fail due to lack of new buyers to sustain the business. I'm still using my Drop CTRL keyboard from 2018. I haven't bought another keyboard since then because it's a good keyboard. Going through my order…