Kudos for telling this story, especially discussing your relationships with investors.

These days it is pretty rare to see a story where such topics are addressed credibly beyond the standard "we love our investors" line.

If an entrepreneur loves their investors it is not news, but if they are willing to openly discuss problems that usually is.

This sort of thing is what led to my bootstrapping a company instead of staying with the VC Startup Scene:

http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/a-solo-bootstrapp...