[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.