Good point. I feel like I'm making myself clear about the process, but maybe I'm missing something. I think in the future I need to write out some sort of bus

Good point. I feel like I'm making myself clear about the process, but maybe I'm missing something. I think in the future I need to write out some sort of business relationship agreement that states my intents as a company and lets the small business know what they should expect from me and what I expect from them. I don't think that's too much to ask since the business is actually getting immediate value from this agreement, mine doesn't come until later. I definitely get payoff with domain-knowledge (instead of money at this point) which, I don't mind. I just didn't want to keep trying to make this business model work if I was going to continually sacrifice cash for domain knowledge. I want to make money eventually :P It's nice to hear that this model can (and frequently does) work. I really like the idea and I think there is a lot of potential to create useful products. This is my first attempt and I knew that there were going to be bumps along the way, I just didn't want to keep trying something that doesn't work. Thanks for your advice. I really appreciate it.