So you're building a business. Presumably you have a hypothesis for why it's going to work. Then some people tell you something negative. You give up despite no

So you're building a business. Presumably you have a hypothesis for why it's going to work. Then some people tell you something negative. You give up despite not even being sure what they mean? If these were potential customers or investors that would perhaps [0] make sense. But if you think you're still right, and some irrelevant people simply have a different opinion (which you don't agree with), then just proceed. I assume the disagreement isn't about what the product is, but whether it can grow into a big business. The "feature" argument is essentially that it can't and won't, but surely you must have believed it can. [0] still overrated since a small minority of them liking you may be enough and customer behavior is tough to gauge pre-product despite what many will have you believe