Kudos for telling this story, especially discussing your relationships with investors.<p>These days it is pretty rare to see a story where such topics are addressed credibly beyond the standard "we love our investors" line.<p>If an entrepreneur loves their investors it is not news, but if they are willing to openly discuss problems that usually is.
This sort of thing is what led to my bootstrapping a company instead of staying with the VC Startup Scene:<p><a href="http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/a-solo-bootstrapping-odyssey-2012-was-the-year-i-quit-my-day-job/" rel="nofollow">http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/a-solo-bootstrapp...</a>