[jacquesm]

The 'timing' thing is a huge factor in start-up failure. Plenty of things that went bad in the past could very well succeed today. The problem is to overcome the resistance that says 'it didn't work before, why should it work now' and then to repeat that process externally with every other party you interact with other than the customers.

It would be great to bolster that case with success stories of repeat-entrants into the race.