This is a good story. It doesn’t have a happy ending — but only because it isn’t an ending, it’s a continuing story whose end has yet to be written.

Before I started Oak Circle, I had an earlier company (the one that created Project Badger). That was my first successful business, but it was actually the third business that I’d tried to start. Both of my earlier attempts failed for different reasons, and I learned a lot from those failures. They weren’t pleasant, but without them, I would never have succeeded in the end.

The moral of the story: you’ve only failed when you give up. Keep at it, and eventually you’ll succeed.