Replies to post #40702 on Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

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My view: big organizations could see it as "early stage".

If LQMT offered an " incredible" solution that could make a huge economical difference for a company with relatively low risk, they might forego the certification.

But if LQMT sales/BD staff primarily speak with the "materials department" (or component certification like at HP), a low/mid level employee would probably have ISO certified as a vendor qualification requirement before applications would even be discussed at length.

It seems to that LQMT could get past big company hurdles ( and complex applications requiring extensive redesign and test) by targeting a different type of company and applications.

[Surfint]

It seems to me that LQMT has primarily focused on large companies because the BD/sales staff primarily comes from large company experience but more of IT backgrounds that don't really know material science, mechanical engineering, physics, etc.

But as soon as the Engel machine is LMT ready ( they know how, etc.), then once the machine is in the hands of interested potential customers, they they ( the potential customers) can come to their own conclusions without directly involving LQMT beyond licensing, feedback, etc., and maybe some consulting work to get going, refine, etc.