I have never taken a hardware product to market, but I did have key roles at VC-funded companies, co-founded a company we got funded, and in 2005 did the VC tour on a hardware product.<p>What I'll say --- and again, don't take my word for it --- is that what you're saying <i>may be</i> the opposite of true. Hardware companies have a higher cost of sales, supply chain issues, worse margins, and must carry inventory (sometimes millions of dollars worth) to fulfill customers. The "hardware" part of what we were doing was, for the VCs that got into real due diligence, the <i>least</i> attractive part of what we were doing.<p>You may have a resume that is a mile long in hardware, and that may mitigate some of the concern.