helpfulbacteria - Something to keep in our thoughts ...
As Wave begins to see more opportunity for Sales, we must all keep in mind that chasing a sale, does not mean that you automatically get the sale. Second, while I think it wise to grow your company to meet certain needs, adding to staff without the sales will definitely serve to move the cash-flow break-even line higher.
Let me be clear - I do not want to hear this song and dance throughout 2007 that we're not at breakeven, because of some of these rerasons. If the business is there, and we're adding to staff because we need the specialists to insert into the customer's community as a SME, or as part of a TC-COE then I'm all for it. But, if this is growing in anticipation of new contracts/work - I'm not.
Not that I know anything, or not that anyone cares, but it is just my opinion that prudent hiring is critical, while field-of-dreams hiring isn't at this point, if it hurts our SP and progress towards making a forward looking statement finally come to fruition.