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The approach of “try a few more things before stopping” is a great strategy akin to taking a few more stabs at RNG. It’s not the same as saying keep trying until you get there - you won’t.
A tech enabled business needs gross margins north of 70% to be attractive from a leverage standpoint, unless revenue is scaling very rapidly. Without these there’s no attractive exit opportunities.
The amount of people who won’t adopt based on pricipal is exceedingly small.
20m records and 9k/sec isn’t very impressive. I would imagine most prospective customers have larger workloads, as you could throw this behind Postgres and call it a day. FWIW I was interested but your metrics made me second guess and wonder what was wrong.
An early stage company that barely has any code? Yes, in that case, it's the team that matters because they haven't fulfilled the vision yet.
More specifically, is it feasible for a Canadian operating startup to open a US entity and employ Canadian engineers under the TN Visa category? This would be an early stage non-VC backed company, but profitable and paying above prevailing market wage.
Is this a use case that you think Hydra would be competetive on?