{"id":302,"date":"2003-12-19T04:10:30","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T09:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/12\/19\/a-display-technology-that-failed\/"},"modified":"2006-12-15T23:27:06","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T04:27:06","slug":"a-display-technology-that-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/12\/19\/a-display-technology-that-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"A Display Technology that failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a249'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nI was skimming the post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arstechnica.com\">ArsTechnica<\/a> about possible <a href=\"http:\/\/ephemeron.infopop.net\/3\/OpenTopic?a=tpc&amp;s=7552915347&amp;f=6182915347&amp;m=2822941847&amp;r=2822941847\">future of display technology<\/a> and stumbled across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photondynamics.com\/img\/wsj.html\">story<\/a> in the forums.  This is a great read for thinking about getting into the technology business.   Be careful that &#8216;good enough&#8217; strategies don&#8217;t clobber you.   Have I written about &#8216;good enough&#8217; strategies yet?  I should since a lot of techies have some belief that &#8216;superiour technology will always win&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn reality completely untrue.   The technology business is very large and there are many factors that come into play in being a (notice I said &#8216;A&#8217; not &#8216;THE&#8217;) success.  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cost to the consumer to buy the end product<\/li>\n<li>Ease of distribution<\/li>\n<li>Ease of understanding uses for the technology<\/li>\n<li>Cost to build<\/li>\n<li>Cost to manufacture<\/li>\n<li>Getting your product out in time<\/li>\n<li>And of course the laws of the physics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These factors and many more come into play when creating something that will be successful in the marketplace.  If you haven&#8217;t thought about these factors at all I believe there&#8217;s a high correlation to failure.  There&#8217;s always lucky flukes but best to not rely on flukes.\n<\/p>\n<p>Obligatory excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>\n<em><br \/>\nThe tale of Candescent Technologies Corp. shows how two of the technology world&#8217;s most cherished ideas are often just plain untrue. First, that antiquated old technologies are always sitting ducks for &#8220;disruptive&#8221; new technologies that come along to challenge them. Second, that every engineering problem can be solved if you have the best and the brightest working on it.<br \/>\n<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photondynamics.com\/img\/wsj.html\">Link to Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was skimming the post on ArsTechnica about possible future of display technology and stumbled across this story in the forums. This is a great read for thinking about getting into the technology business. Be careful that &#8216;good enough&#8217; strategies don&#8217;t clobber you. Have I written about &#8216;good enough&#8217; strategies yet? I should since a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1215,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gripe","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}