[dereking]

You touched on another opened wound - "falling in love with the idea over time"

For me I experienced the opposite. A while back we were working on and idea which we believed to have a lot of potential and opportunities to do something of actual positive impact in society.

Long story short, as time went on, I personally started feeling like it was not that great of an idea, like if it would be awesome someone would have done it by now, etc. For other circumstances the team drifted apart geographically and the startup slowly reached development stagnation.

Not that long after, 2-3 very similar ideas emerged in the market - one of them from a startup's partnership with PayPal.

Needless to say, I both felt sad and happy. The first is pretty self explanatory, while the second felt like a nice validation pat on the back.

But I digress...

Thanks for the comment, really insightful.

[js4]

This is just part of the game --its happened to me.

I had a company that had some investment $$ and realized that it wouldn't work like I thought it would. So I did the responsible thing and found a buyer so that I could get my investors out of the deal.