[adventured]

If the success of what you're doing depends very heavily on the patent, then focus on getting that above all else. Given the time trade off you're talking about, be very sure about that.

It's probably a difficult equation to resolve, or you wouldn't have posted for input here.

If the patent is strong, important to what you're doing, and likely to be approved based on research that has been done on existing patents, then it should boost the value of your seed round very meaningfully (and it's important to find investors that understand the value proposition). If any of those three things are not true, then your patent filing is not worth focusing on exclusively (that is, put more time into the product / users, put some time into the patent).

[AndriusSutas]

Thanks for the input!