My most Epic Failure part2. The Angel from Hell.

In all my infinite glory I happened upon the worst Angel Investor in the whole wide world. Ever. In fact the universe.
In mid 2006 I sat in my car and cried. It was the first time in like 5 years I had cried but it was definitely one of the lowest lowest moments in my young life. An investor had brought this proud young man to tears. How? Because I let him. I did a crazy thing. I believed what he told me. I was ultimately to blame for what happened to me.
And no one will ever do that again. Ever.
Anatomy of my most Epic Failure part2 — Funding
Enter 2006, I was reeling in a massive massive cash crunch (which I believed I was solving but in actual fact I was merely prolonging). It started from 3 months after launch and turned into a 3year-long battle. I was desperately doing the rounds attempting to pitch to local businesses to buy advertising space in the magazine. It didn’t work. No one was biting. They just didn’t have the ad budgets or I was just a terrible terrible salesman. E...

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