Dave McClure's answer for you - http://www.businessinsider.com/dave-mcclure-startup-presentation-2011-7#get-used-to-hearing-people-crap-on-your-idea-and-get-co

Dave McClure's answer for you - http://www.businessinsider.com/dave-mcclure-startup-presentation-2011-7#get-used-to-hearing-people-crap-on-your-idea-and-get-comfortable-with-ignoring-them-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/dave-mcclure-startup-presenta... Or Orwell's answer about writing a book is relevant - "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw If you even have to think about it, don't do the startup.