> I would ask if there are moral implications of selling what you believe you can do (to employees/customers/investors) as if you actually can/have done it.
My grandfather co-founded a now-giant engineering company. When they were getting started, they would bid for any job. If they didn't know how to do it, they learned how to do it. I think that's a great attitude, and a winning attitude. They knew they could learn new skills promptly, so I don't see the problem.
They succeeded. It worked out. You may say, "They could have failed" but they could have failed no matter what policy they had for taking on projects so I don't really see a difference. Whenever I take on a non-trivial programming project I have to learn some amount of new stuff in order to complete the project. And I know I can do that. My belief I can learn things is true. This is just normal, shrug.
My grandfather co-founded a now-giant engineering company. When they were getting started, they would bid for any job. If they didn't know how to do it, they learned how to do it. I think that's a great attitude, and a winning attitude. They knew they could learn new skills promptly, so I don't see the problem.
They succeeded. It worked out. You may say, "They could have failed" but they could have failed no matter what policy they had for taking on projects so I don't really see a difference. Whenever I take on a non-trivial programming project I have to learn some amount of new stuff in order to complete the project. And I know I can do that. My belief I can learn things is true. This is just normal, shrug.