A languishing startup with a great product - thoughts?
david927: The frustration is understandable.  It's partly the problem of gate keepers. Something like 20 publishers turned down J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter book.  The people making the decisions on what to fund can be woefully out of touch.  What makes me sad is that they often don't try.  I'm sick of seeing silly Web 2.0 startups.  At first I thought they were getting funding because no one is working on hard problems -- but no.  There are a lot of startups taking on tough, game-changing problems; there's just not a lot of funding for them.  That makes me sick.As for the device you mention as an example -- it would be much more amazing and powerful if you could move it down to your wrist, so that they look like wrist bands then combined it with an earbud microphone/speaker.  If the electronics were in the wrist bands, the cellphone as a separate device could go away for a lot of people.  I would definitely buy that.