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Re:When good ideas make bad business by SquishyPanda23 on Friday January 03, 2020 @01:44PM (#21948944)
He also seems to have misread Susan.

In the story she describes the project as "fun" before he asks what she'd pay. At that point he probably should have picked up that she was being kind and was not in fact seeing a product she was interested in buying.

He probably could have figured that out by asking doctors before he built the thing.

Re:When good ideas make bad business by jimbokun on Friday January 03, 2020 @02:25PM (#21949381)
> He probably could have figured that out by asking doctors before he built the thing.

Which is the entire point of the article, made very explicitly.