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Originally Posted by artK

You seem to make a number of assumptions about a successful team. I recommend you take a read of this post about what successful teams do, especially stereotypes #1 and #2, which goes into monetary and machining resources of some successful teams.

I think the OP is concerned that some teams he or she is familiar with have found success and are disappointed that attempts to recruit additional or 'big' sponsors have not met with success.

If anything, the presumption was that many successful teams are not able to become 'rich' despite being successful. The referenced post is about teams thinking that all successful teams must be 'rich' (and other stuff.) That's a different issue.