The Emotional Toll of a Startup
People often compare running a startup company to a roller coaster with all of it's intense ups and downs. Actually, some days it feels more like navigating 20 foot seas in a rubber dingy. New entrepreneurs often do not truly understand the emotional toll a startup can take.
One week your user growth spikes and you are sure that you have hit the elusive hockey stick. The week it comes crashing back to earth for no apparent reason. One week you pull off a near perfect product rollout, the next your servers won't stay up for more than ten minutes. Aaaahhhh, it's enough to turn a normally sane person into a bipolar, manic depressive.
