Poornima, your blog resonated with me at different levels, although I don’t technically run a start up of my own, at least not yet:) I am a free lance writer writing short story fiction for children. I have my lucky days when I am flooded with work and those bad days when I feel like a failed start up. There are projects that I started with a lot of passion that just fizzled out for the most unexpected reasons, but like you said, all those times have taught me so much about dealing with different kinds of people, marketing, the reality of being in an extremely crowded writer’s market, learning that I am more capable than what I think about myself, so on and so forth. I enjoyed the optimism behind your blogpost. Good luck to you in all your endeavours.