Hello
I could be negative, (as I have tried to build relationships and participate in various forums, etc, and have still come up short on the JV side of the house), but I won't.
I am looking at the entire situation as a university learning experience. The more failed attempts I have, the more I learn and the more time I have to go back and fine-tune my product, tweek my sales copy, etc...
Even though I have not had a successful jv as of yet, I know it is coming. I do however wish that those who have made it, do sometimes take a look back at where you came from and consider that the little person tugging on your sleeve at the moment was probably you not long ago.
It burns me sometimes to see that people will quickly JV with someone simply because they have a name dispite the fact that the product stinks or is not all that, and will thumb their nose at someone else simply because they don't have a name, but they have a great product.
I don't know if that ranting made much since, I was simply trying to say that, if you investigate the product and it is sound, maybe JVing with the person may not be a bad decision, can't we all just help each other.
That back you scratch today, might just be your six-figure back scratcher in the future.