[rralian]

My first startup was a bit of a fad. A fast rise to millions of users, and then a slow peter out -- no matter what we tried. We also didn't know what we were doing, to be fair. Anyway, as we were on our last legs we got a couple offers for our email list of about 6 million users. My co-founder wanted to take them to get some money out of it, but it was an easy "no" for me. We were doing this on the side of day jobs, so failure probably didn't feel quite as catostrophic and we didn't feel as desperate. Still, probably a good thing he would have had no idea how to get at the database (designer).