Reactrix took 75MM (!) to project video games on the floors of malls, with an ad-supported (!) business model. 'twas ever thus.<p>Music startup Fuzz Artists couldn't get enough traffic to sustain a business model. So the founder blames the market, which in "better" times would have afforded him access to $10MM in capital to put his reckoning off by a couple of years. Shouldn't he instead be happy to have his life and his career back?<p>Or how about nTag Interactive, which sold RFID nametags for conferences. Not a crazy idea at all. But they hadn't had a news update since July '08, well before the market crash. What does this have to do with the current climate?<p>This is an incredible easy, lazy story for any journalist to write. There are <i>always</i> a collection of companies with a sob story to write about. When that collection includes Facebook, LinkedIn, or (hell) Twitter, maybe the story will have teeth.