On 21/11/2012, at 11:48 AM, Raoul Duke wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:41 PM, john skaller > <skal...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> Anyhow what is needed now are developers who can see the >> potential of the system and stick with development long enough >> to realise goals. The system is highly flexible, maybe too much >> for the average programmer: there isn't even a fixed "language" >> (other than the C++ on which the run time is based). > > thereby reducing the thread to an earlier one where i was hoping > somebody had contacts to get VC money for us all... :-) too bad i > don't.
Oh, VC is easy to get, but you have to have something to demonstrate first, and you also need a business model to commercialise it. I was going to commercialise it myself (when I had my own funds), but I made a constraint to prevent my involvement getting in the way: there had to be (the equivalent of) three full time developers. At the time just prior to the funds materialising there were two, the corporate vehicle was established, and there was a possible third. A holiday in Italy and a Tuscan woman blew all of that, so I put the funds towards a sustainable future and bought a yacht to live on. It's easy to get funding. But as I said one has to have a working product with clear market advantages, a business model for cashing in on those advantages, and a willingness to work hard towards the development goal without funding and then give up at least two thirds of it for the initial funding. There is another method, equivalent but aimed at academia rather than commerce: attract research grants. Actually there's another method: find a client. You only need one. [More is actually hard to deal with at the start]. This almost happened a couple of months ago. The bottom line here is that no one is going to hand you funds unless you've *already* demonstrated a commitment to a development because the funder really cannot judge the technology or market: they can only look at the people involved and their track record. For Felix there have been people come along, do a burst of work, and then leave. Sometimes even a long period of work. Unfortunately the result is I usually have to undo most of the work because I cannot manage it. A sustained commitment to a small part is actually more useful. -- john skaller skal...@users.sourceforge.net http://felix-lang.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
