Some time ago, I started a thread, "A huge market for metal detectors"
Googling a few hours, this seemed to be a real possibility. There are about 2,000,000 gold diggers worldwide, who make their living digging for gold with their (nearly) bare hands. Although I never dug gold myself, I did spend some time digging for diamonds, so I do have a little knowledge of how such things work.
These 2,000,000 gold diggers have a few rudimentary tools and with a lot of sweat and hardship manage to extract 1 or 2 grams of gold per day, to just survive.
In many of the gold diggers areas, metal detectors could be used. Big market it would seem. A metal detector could be bought for a few day's work, it would seem.
Once I took a closer look at the problem, I found that "not all that glitters is gold".
There is actually no market. Or, such a small market that it is not worthwhile to consider it.
Why?
Is there a commercial metal detector available that could do the job?
Would a new MD design, specially designed for this job, have a market?
What would the design parameters need to be to find this market?
Market is demand. Why is there no demand for a professional gold digger detector?
Or, looking at the manufacturing angle:
Where should we build the detector?
Which area in the large world should be the first marketing target?
Tinkerer
Googling a few hours, this seemed to be a real possibility. There are about 2,000,000 gold diggers worldwide, who make their living digging for gold with their (nearly) bare hands. Although I never dug gold myself, I did spend some time digging for diamonds, so I do have a little knowledge of how such things work.
These 2,000,000 gold diggers have a few rudimentary tools and with a lot of sweat and hardship manage to extract 1 or 2 grams of gold per day, to just survive.
In many of the gold diggers areas, metal detectors could be used. Big market it would seem. A metal detector could be bought for a few day's work, it would seem.
Once I took a closer look at the problem, I found that "not all that glitters is gold".
There is actually no market. Or, such a small market that it is not worthwhile to consider it.
Why?
Is there a commercial metal detector available that could do the job?
Would a new MD design, specially designed for this job, have a market?
What would the design parameters need to be to find this market?
Market is demand. Why is there no demand for a professional gold digger detector?
Or, looking at the manufacturing angle:
Where should we build the detector?
Which area in the large world should be the first marketing target?
Tinkerer
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