[treis]

>I'm rooting for you, and like you, I had every ounce of skin in the game. My retirement, my daughters college. Everything.

>Understand that things don't always work out the way you intend. Starting over when you are my age is very hard. Consider me as a cautionary tale.

I'm pulling for him too, but I have the awful feeling that I'm reading the story of a guy blowing his savings, ruining his credit, and maybe taking mom down with him.

[chrishacken]

We're a profitable company doing over a quarter million a year ATM. We aren't running fiber on a whim.

[hpcjoe]

We were too. Until we needed to expand to meet a customers needs. Then we had to take on debt.

As I said, a cautionary tale. Call me the ghost of startups past :/

[icedchai]

I started out in the ISP industry, back in the mid-90's. This was back in the dialup / T1 days. I can't imagine doing it now...