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Gnòtul's avatar

Haha, brilliant 1-20 commercialization checklist.

-a chemist in sales-

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Robbins, Robert B.'s avatar

This is a wonderful guide to how the real world can be made to work.

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Elizabeth Burns's avatar

It's pretty accurate. Commercializing a chemical product is just hard, and hard in ways that have very little to do with valence electrons.

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Tony's avatar

Yup, electrons are relatively easy. They usually follow rules pretty well.

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Jordan's avatar

The stuff about Chad from one floor down is funny, because it's true.

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Tony's avatar

We all marvel at your prescience Jordan.

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George's avatar

Good read, thanks for sharing. Reminds me of the advice given to all early stage start ups, "do things that don't scale" http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

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