[slipwalker]

Hope you are not looking only for success stories... I left a stable job at a small consultancy, with one-year-worth of salaries on the bank, armed with my tech skills but no sales expertise ( or commercial talent ) whatsoever. The results, 14 years later: bankruptcy, lots of debt, a couple labor-related lawsuits and back to full time employment for a large corporation... Lesson learned: as an entrepreneur you can buy tech skills ( and it's cheaper than most would imagine ) but nothing is more valuable than sales (soft)skills. A competent, well related, sales person is the most valuable asset on your company.

( BTW, my company was developing J2EE/JEE/JavaEE small/mid-sized projects for finance&insurance companies in Brazil )