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I don’t even think it’s expertise. Assuming you have a good and valuable product, sales and marketing is still just extremely hard.

You have to remember that 90% of the startup successes we hear about are VC funded, so can make a significant loss on sales and marketing. To fund it from cashflow makes the game even harder still.



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