too soon? a hard boiled egg cracked before finished, a cake or souffle falling being taken from the oven too soon, the premature babies, with enough of a struggle, the ideas, the concepts born too early, the Newton, a personal digital assistant well before the technology, before the market even existed, ahead of their time, still born, birthed too soon, without proper gestation, but the flipside of that, the question of waiting too long, of missing the window, of too much insular product development, left with a niche, with 90% of the market taken by an inferior product, but with the balls to rush to market. venture capitalists seem to know how to handle these things, how to gauge some risk, how soon, how ready the product is, how ready the market is, with guesses on sales figures and charts and production ramp up. too many questions, too many variables, too many initial and ongoing conditions. too many, and still, not enough.