I think you may have missed my point. It was that the "business person" is usually seen as "just having an idea, not doing any real work" by this community -- e

I think you may have missed my point. It was that the "business person" is usually seen as "just having an idea, not doing any real work" by this community -- even though they would bring marketing, PR, product, etc skills to the table. And the dismissive "I'll just hire a marketer" talk sounds a lot like the marketer saying "I'll just hire a programmer". It seems like we're in full agreement: these two functions can and should co-exist.