Comment by epberry

I think your second question is the biggest thing. If you're developing some groundbreaking technology or doing heavy research you face a bunch of gnarly questions. How to convince investors when the climate favors revenue and customers over technological promise? How to attract users or customers to some subset of what you're doing while you build the larger thing? How to explain to everyone what you're doing if, as in research, you don't have a 100% clear idea of where you're going to end up?