Just wanted to echo common sentiments that your blog post was a very well-written and yet personal treatise on how and why startups fail.
Another good pair of posts comes from Chad Etzel (previously Notifo): http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/05/02/startups-are-hard.html
http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/09/08/fouling-out-moving-on.h...