The other companies in the list you actually gave reasons, but with us you just keep referring to this previous conversation and I do not understand your point.
First, I didn't remember that SI was your company and I was impressed with your company, so my thought was, why is this company in the list better than the company I remember chatting with a few months back that was struggling, yet passionate and interested in saving local news. I was disappointed that companies like yours weren't represented in the list. It just so happens that the company I was reading about was your company.
So you're an interesting case, because I knew about you and knowing about you was why I wasn't impressed with the SI I was reading about, simply because I knew of an impressive other company in the space. It supports what pg is saying, that with deeper investigation, some of the unimpressive companies become impressive, because I had done deeper investigation on you months before and was impressed.
I remember commenting to someone and then someone else coming in and saying, "I'm the business partner." And your name, Lloyd is very familiar.
Anyway, I suggested to talk to the employer and see if you/he could take a day off a week and focus on sales during business hours and see if you could build up enough revenue.
Unfortunately, the person felt insecure about that idea because lots of concessions had been made by the employer already and it was doubtful that more were available and there was a lot of tension.
So I looked up the company and you had three or four products that you were selling to traditional news papers and you were really passionate about saving local news and I was too and I thought it was good idea and I wanted you to succeed, so congratulations! I think you are on your way! :)
EDIT: Yep, here's the thread. I was just fnid then, but I lost the password: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=916035