Thanks, I do agree with you Airlift but I am always misunderstood on sales here on this board. In my experience you don't get sales until you are correctly positioned with regard to the market. Don't get me wrong, they only take me to sales meetings for substance not hype. But sales is science, too right?
I haven't had a chance to be clear on this, yet because I don't tend to criticize the past. Complaining about the past is not a survival attribute. But, with all due respect, you guys started in the stratosphere--literally! I'm not that smart about business but you needed about $5B of capital to create a new technology like Stratellites IMO. A couple of USGov programs have died up there.
If Argus One exists, and I presently have no reason to believe it is fiction, then it starts to be interesting. Still it is brand new technology and will have an agonizingly long sales cycle IMO. Now BIB is cool but the only real smart thing about the envelope is its size. In a post-helium world, bigger isn't better. Needs to be even smaller IMO--use MAV tech for ISR. Get cuft down as much as possible.
And the box--doesn't matter to me if they built it or not (and I think they did)--they thought of building it. Someone is finally thinking about a post-helium world. So, IMO, this battered old hulk of a ship has finally reached some trading islands. The crew is worn out, the hull is leaking, but why sit here and die? Unless you have a death wish or a dark, bitter heart.
So, the satcomms and Stratellites are cool--might be able to build up to them someday. Argus One may sell eventually--it is a good tool. But now you can start at the foxhole or patrol car and work up. The capital to do tactical isn't as big IMO.
So this is where I think we are--start where you are and be smarter or give up. So my short answer is that you don't sell squat until you get correctly positioned to sell. Sorry the company started in the stratosphere--you get some points for vision anyway. The planet needs a World Surveillance company--if not this one, another. But right now I am here, so let's get reasonably positioned to try to sell something. No one was smart enough to get here, but let's take the luck and work the opportunities we have. The first money to harvest is on the ground. Wish I was clearer, airlift. VR, Indy.
