Primary reservation about embarking on a new commercial venture is that I'm not at all confident that any of the compelling things that I might work on are possible in the current economic, political, and regulatory structure.
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Honestly I'm not even sure if I'd be able to grow and sell tomatoes without talking to a lawyer first, let alone dive into interesting problems in the physical world. I know for a fact that basically anything involving radios is a regulatory non-starter, for example.
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This regulatory risk is poison to investors. Why throw money after novel concepts when investments in established public firms have the backing of the Fed and congress? That's a hard thing to justify to risk-averse stakeholders.
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I would absolutely love to dive into commercializing integrated smallfabs. The things you can do with electrochemical machining and 3D printers will fundamentally change how manufacturing works. Enormous opportunities exist to democratize the means of production.
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But I know for a fact that I don't have the network to actually pull this off right now. And I also know for a fact that VC will reject out of hand anything that competes with smallfab products coming out of PRC or elsewhere overseas for the reasons I describe above.
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Sounds like you need to get in touch with somehow - just mention bringing innovative industrial capacity back home from the PRC and you’ll be golden hah