One of the realities of starting a company is that sometimes it just doesn’t work out and you shut down.  Check out Andy Sack’s series of posts on shutting down Seattle-company Judy’s Book after several years and over $10MM in venture capital.  Going through a wind down (as I have) is a humbling experience because the wind just leaves the sails and you are dead in the water.  People move on and you lament what could have been.

Andy has some great posts on both his feelings going through the process as well as a real-time postmortem on lessons learned.  Andy is great guy, successful entrepreneur, and ring leader of the Seattle Open Coffee Club (which I have yet to return to) where I met him briefly.  Thanks for sharing Andy.