Rumor has it that there had been some personal conflicts between Russ and Navarrow and also some politics that added to the fire. Any insight a week after the story broke out?

Unique technology and small staff – I definitely concur.

You seem pretty harsh on some of our fellow entrepreneurs! I actually think it's great regarding the efforts of TheRoot, Rushmore, Global Grind or any other entrepreneur who has had the cojones to step into the ring and actually take a stab at it. They tried and if they've “failed”, I hope they dust themselves off and try again. Lord knows, I've gotten my best successes from learning from past failures (the watchword for all of my projects now is “Fail Fast”). We, as a community, need more of these mavericks. Your statement actually reminded me of a quote from a speech that Teddy Roosevelt gave in Paris:

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

Herb.
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