Selling Kiko  I told this story to some new people the other
night, and in its retelling I realized that it might be more
interesting than I thought. I've already chronicled getting
funding for Kiko, the first ever AJAX web calendar, from Y
Combinator, as well as how we ended up starting What was left
out was how transitioned out of the business.   When Emmett and
I were winding down Kiko we thought a lot about what we could do
with it. Eventually, we decided we would start a new company,
but had to close Kiko, which had several angel investors
including YC. We had a bit of cash left in the bank, but felt a
great deal of responsibility to return as much money to the
investors as possible.  While brainstorming how to do this, I
had the idea that we could cleanly liquidate our assets by
selling everything on eBay. I wish that I could say the idea was
original, but the previous year a site called Jux2 (which showed
search results from both Microsoft and Yahoo) sold itself for
$105,000. We figured if we could rec