Sellaband, and possibly the other companies you mention, just seem to us to be feeding the hunger for a "middleman" by some artists - which surely should be absent from CwF + RtB anyway? Far more attention needs to be paid to the CwF part of the equation. If you make your art and fund it yourself to start with - by playing live for example - once you have CwF's some of them will be engaged enough to come on board and help you, possibly by supplying skills and time not just finance.
Once you have a decent grassroots support network and a good strategy, you can then attract investment to take things to the next level. You don't need these kind of companies any more than the old record labels.
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Good to see you give ReverbNation a plug, definitely one of the more useful tools currently at our disposal.