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Wow, I wish all you smart people could teach the rest of us how to run a successful business. I mean, heck, all it takes to be a good business person is 20% of a coder's times? If that is all it takes, not sure why you are partnering up with someone who isn't a developer.

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I'm not sure how to interpret your comment. Kindly explain?

He just misinterpreted the previous comments. When developers were saying 20% of their time goes to managing clients and 80% to coding, he thought they were implying stirring up business is easy compared to coding. However, they were simply saying 1 hour of searching for clients generated them about 4 hours of work. This means to have a balanced team, they'd need 4 developers for every 1 person on sales, otherwise, working equal hours, the sales person would be bringing in more work then the group can handle.

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