You know what is sad about these things: someone actually created most of them not to rip people off but because they thought it would work. Here's how it goes:
1. MBA comes up with what they think is a really good idea but can't implement it because that's someone else's job.
2. Being an MBA he/she looks at marketing and funding first.
3. Investors sling a few tens of K at the MBA after a powerpoint.
4. This is used to do two things: (a) secure more funding for research and engineering and (b) further marketing, kickstarters etc (you just watched that).
5. MBA tries to find engineers.
6. Engineers piss themselves laughing and roll around the floor uncontrollably.
7. MBA doesn't understand this, assuming engineers don't have a can do attitude and goes and finds more engineers.
8. After a few weeks one turns up who will just take the MBA's money while buying toys and doing nothing at all.
9. Eventually the investors ask about their return, which is non existent.
10. MBA folds the idea, blaming the engineers for not implementing his idea.
11. Go to (1)
The travesty is the programmed belief that you can solve every problem with money and the right people without having to understand viability or the constraints placed on you. And that's an MBA.
Recently we had a company suggesting that we performed a computation for them on their data. We threw it at our algo guys and they said that it wasn't viable as the complexity was factorial meaning it would take longer than the lifetime of the universe to compute what they wanted. Company went elsewhere for 7 months and was told the same everywhere. Came back because we were the cheapest in the end and didn't ask us about that feature
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