Originally Posted by Jim in Idaho
... Their downfall IMO wasn't lack of build quality but the inability of management and their employees to take a start up company into the big time, they literally couldn't manage it.

Somewhere in the past, I read that one of Bill Gates better management decisions was to bring in outside managers to run the "post-startup" Microsoft. Not so many entrepreneurs are able to effectively handle both the start up, and the long term run and grow...