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Comment by Temporary_31337

6 months ago

To be fair you only need to pay sustenance or opportunity cost so closer to 100k per person should be fine especially outside of USA

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WalterBright  6 months ago

I figured the $1m would also fund the equipment and supplies they'd need.

  • fuzzfactor  6 months ago

    Here's what works for me:

    1. Already found X highly motivated scientists and engineers.

    - in my case people that must like chemicals, electronics, software, stuff like that

    2. $1Mil funding x X but it's got to be paid back in 5 years so a viable business model needs to be initiated right away even if the technology is as much as a year out from possible release or commercialization.

    - each person needs to be worth a million over 5 years, that's hard enough to find, it would be more of a needle in a haystack to find experimentalists where it's good to sink a million per year for a decent length of time, but that can be worked up to. If serious research is involved, stealth must be an option

    3. Put them in X number of buildings.

    - works better than you think, and "nobody's" doing it

    4. Some of these are profit centers from day 1, so you could even put franchising on the table ;)

    - you'd be surprised what people who've already invented a lifetime of stuff could do with the kind of resources that can enable a motivated creator who has yet to make very remarkable progress, so leverage both