> Another thing, I appreciate the author's honesty but will admitting that he quit on the company/investors hurt his chances of getting any sort of consideratio

> Another thing, I appreciate the author's honesty but will admitting that he quit on the company/investors hurt his chances of getting any sort of consideration in the future and a founder of another startup? It won't hurt his chances at all. Startups fail, VCs know this. As an example, I was in YC W10 with Thomas' batch, and failed/quit my startup over 3 years ago. I found no problem raising money again: http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/25/circleci-raises-1-5m-from-eric-ries-and-heroku-founders-for-platform-to-test-web-apps http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/25/circleci-raises-1-5m-from-e.... I suspect it will be easier for Thomas since he has more personal relationships with investors than I did when I started to raise 18 months ago.