Re: Good luck trying to get one!
"get someone on board who understands business"
Prediction works a whole lot better when you've got historical precedents to work from. Where are the historical precedents for Pi (other than previous Pi variants)?
You're clearly aware of the classical "business" approach for times like these: increase the price till demand matches short term supply.
"the key thing to ensure is that demand can be met and customers (including schools) can actually purchase your product!"
Schools? Why would a school want something right now (Pi 3?) for which they have no use right now? It's not on this year's lesson plans, the support materials aren't there quite yet. Everything a school needs this year can already be done with things a school can buy this year. Even the Pi Zero is primarily aimed at the "maker" market not the schools market, is it not?
"Haters gonna hate"
And impatient people gonna be impatient. Some of them gonna selectively quote facts and some may be damn rude about it, too - it's the Interweb, it's the done thing, innit. Well no, not necessarily, not everywhere, not always.
Have a lot of fun.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
