[bizzleDawg]

When I "quit my startup" that involved making several people redundant, letting down customers, and announcing that I'd been able to make it work.

I was also fearful of the potential that my name would be tarnished in the local tech scene as being unreliable, or unlikely to follow through with future projects. Think of Google's reputation when it comes to new products getting axed after half-assed efforts, but applied to a founder.

How others label you does matter when it comes to operating in a society IMHO, even if that could be classed as coercion.