[brudgers]

Its viability is directly proportional to the emphasis on sales instead of technology.

Business is not based on making good stuff.

Business is based on selling stuff.

Or to put it another way, technical development is the inverse of a con.

Good luck.

[heshiming]

Yes I'm aware of that. In my experience, the companies I worked for that are functioning properly is typically more than 60% effort dedicated to sales. It's about business development, partnering. But to me it's still a problem of the chicken and the egg. Because I'm also seeing tremendous obstacles in sales when the underlying product isn't a good one.

[brudgers]

I'm sympathetic to seeing it as a chicken-egg problem because I do the same myself.

But I know that sales is both the chicken and the egg.

A company can sell other people's products and be a good business.

The only problem with that is that I don't get to make stuff.