A founder’s life is a joyride. It is no less than a movie script. It has everything—joy, failure, happiness, and sadness. Every moment of the journey is filled with excitement.
One thing, apart from luck, that defines a winning or quitting founder is their mental strength. Most startups die when founders give up. All auxiliary reasons—about the team, funding, and competitors—are immaterial.
If you have the quest and determination to build, you will find a way. Nobody can stop you. It requires a lot of determination, forgiveness, and not being discouraged by the naysayers.
I still remember pitching to our early customers when building Taghash. A lot of them said tools like ours were not needed at all in their workflow. A few told us about our competitors and how much funding they had raised.