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It is December 2001 and I am wearing out my throat begging for money, again!

No, I am not on the streets panhandling, rather my first start-up, Zento, has just lost it’s “guaranteed” second round funding as well as my best-friend and co-founder. And we are days away from letting the last 35 staff go home without a job and without a days worth of severance.