Ask HN: When do you know your startup has failed?
25 is young to feel like you are "losing at life". I was 35 when I started my first startup, completely bootstrapped. I ploughed all my savings (considerable amount) into the startup over a 5 year period, with lots of rollercoaster moments during that time.<p>From someone who previously earned a lot of money and now had a family to support, this was <i>incredibly</i> hard. I almost gave up a few times. Actually, I try give up once or twice by finding a job, but circumstances conspired to make me keep going.<p>7 years on, and things are much better now, and the business is actually doing quite well, and is a nice lifestyle business.<p>Seriously, 25 is young. You have loads of time to fail. Better to do it now, then when you have family obligations. That's when things are very different.