Eyetech should be providing the authorizer retailers/resellers with a back channel to the manufacturer. They should be trying less to be the front man of a manufaturer they got to produce the boards and more of a distributor.
It might be a better idea for them to separate the two, as they seem to want to be a manufaturer but operate as a distributor at the same time. They may need to separate the A1 production bussiness from their retail/distrobution business. Have a separate business or unit that licences and outsources the production of motherboards and another unit with is just product distrobution/retails sales. They could have Eyetech Industries Ltd. and Eyetech Distrubution Ltd both under Eyetech Group Ltd. I think it would bring clarity of purpose that would help make things work more smoothly.
I read that and had to laugh, not because you're wrong, but we're talking about, what? 3 guys in a garage? The only thing any of that would change is a few of the papers in the filing cabinet.
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("3 guys" wasn't meant literally, that's not a dig at Eyetech.)