Passionate interest in your product seem unwilling to front the company the seed money?" you're asking someone to be an investor versus being a customer. >> i think it's a good question. i think that in very large companies, that amount of money for them is really like a rounding error, if that. and i think sometimes companies are afraid they'll fund and then ignore something. and also sometimes it's more risk than they're willing to take. if they go into a similar business or work with someone else or deal with someone else, they don't want to have a conflict of interest in the future, so som...