Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

[Brian H]

As for the geniuses at Google and the less-than in government, one of the reasons investment in FF is hard to attract is that it’s such a lousy job-creator in the R&D phase. It doesn’t need enough money and bodies to bother with, apparently. In his video Google Talk, Eric was asked if multiplying the up-front investment and doing a “crash” program would be worthwhile (obviously to get at the payoff stage earlier, a BIG priority for Venture Vultures, aka Angels). He answered, (in effect), “Not really. Crash-programming involves exploring many/all paths at once. But some steps need to be finished before you even know what the options are, and have do be done in sequence. Crashing would be a waste of money, and the labour/brains logistics just aren’t there.” So the VVs lost interest. 8 years? It might as well be the year 3000 as far as they’re concerned.