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Michael Horton's avatar

Ryan, I worked for a number of tech startups in the past. In just about every case, having a working beta was the best start to obtaining new investor interest. The next was to have a beta site customer signed up to participate in next level testing. Your early marketing presentation showing how an investor is going to profit is critical to get interest among investors. Good luck and I look forward to your success.

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Brian Hoag's avatar

Is it possible to use Side Scanning Radar data from Air Force or even Battle Surveillance Radar the make the trip to target run avoid "known obstacles" en route. There might even have them as waypoint navigational.

I don't know how smart your system is but these could be on the dream sheet for a later iteration.

Don't mess with what you are doing now. It's a giant step past your competition. Get Ver 0.7 up to 1.0, then sell the customer on what you dream of.

B. D. Hoag

Lt. (USNR) Med.

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Rockjaw's avatar

RM:

The rule of obtaining lending/investing finance, is: if y’all don’t need it, it’s magically available… if y’all really need it, no one answers your calls or inquiries

That said, I hate to suggest it but, maybe a crowd-funding approach would work for what is, in the scheme of things, a relatively small amount of capital needed… maybe $20 increments w/ each $20 investment equivalent to .25 share of whatever IPO

or sale of the technology platform and related patents that are produced?

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Robert Gardner's avatar

Great project Ryan. Here is an observation, though. While I understand your needs and limitations that keep the graphic representation of what the drone sees to a less-than-Minecraft level, I think you would attract more money and excite people generally with something that was closer to photorealistic. I’m sure you will be able to do this with cameras on the drones at some point, but it is sometimes the case that people involved in an essentially technical project will lose sight of the need for old fashioned sales techniques. Meaning no disrespect at all, great project and good luck with it.

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jeffrey d schwenneker's avatar

Minecraft for Drones

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Charlie Fulton's avatar

Amazing project Ryan.

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Robert Adamski's avatar

As a medic, I sincerely hope this project you’re working on proves viable and successful. It’s not an understatement to say lives may depend on it when we are fighting that next war overseas in some far away land wherever that may be. My compliments good sir. Good luck. 👍☘️🥃

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Brian Hoag's avatar

ie: Vaporware

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Researching Ukraine's avatar

Hey Ryan, are you using SoC, a bunch of micro processors or some kind of FPGA?

If you don't want to answer because that's giving away the secret sauce, I understand. But this def matters to my PhD research. I'm sending you this as a message also.

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