Like all things in startup life - nothing is easy, everything is hard. To me it sounds like you&#x27;ve given up already.<p>If you don&#x27;t have the fire in your belly to overcome challenges, then chances are you probably won&#x27;t be very good at building a successful company.<p>&quot;soul crushing&quot;, &quot;lottery&quot; are words that people who easily give up use. Where&#x27;s the fire, where&#x27;s the ambition?<p>That&#x27;s one of the most important things I&#x27;m looking for in the founding team when I read applications. I want to see determination, fire in the soul, and an ambition to go out there and make amazing things happen.<p>A great founding team can take a shitty idea and still make a success out of it, a shitty team can take a great idea and make nothing out of it.