Re:On the lack of progress reports from the Mill project
by im_down_w_otp on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:34PM
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Anything that's a sufficient departure from the norm is going to have a very hard time raising VC money from all but a very small handful of VCs that take really big transformative swings. That's not to say that Mill Computing doesn't need to do a better job at making material for laypersons to help build a zeitgeist around their thesis and what they're doing, but it should also be considered that they're doing something that VCs don't have much interest in for reasons that have nothing to do with the existential merits of Mill Computing. Which is just the long-winded way of saying, VC money is probably the wrong money for them.
Re:On the lack of progress reports from the Mill project
by b9a2cab5 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @01:25PM
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Mill really needed to be proven in academia with a physical implementation before going the startup route. If you look at RISC-V, that's been a proven path towards derisking the challenges of a clean sheet design+ISA.
Yes. I think it’s hard for them because they probably aren’t pitching to VCs correctly. The Mill folks desperately need some elevator pitch material. Ivan Goddard mentioned [0] that they’re having problems raising VC money, in a world where VC money has been flowing like water.
Every single video/document from Mill Computing has been targeted towards highly technical audiences. I’ve seen zero material from them targeted to laypeople. You’re never going to secure any funding if your website only consists of a series of highly technical slides and lecture videos. This [1] is their “high level” overview page, which is already way too technical.
[0] https://millcomputing.com/topic/news/#post-3684
[1] https://millcomputing.com/#_Technology