Interesting! You make a good point and Diaspora certainly has potential if not the "push" it needs to mass adoption (which may be a factor of grass roots / timi

Interesting! You make a good point and Diaspora certainly has potential if not the "push" it needs to mass adoption (which may be a factor of grass roots / timing / zeitgeist). What saddened me was the line about the suicide...I just read an article posted by the Kauffman Fellows Academy in which one of my former instructors and VC, Brad Feld talks about the importance of dealing with emotional challenges of being an entrepreneur. http://plus.url.google.com/url?sa=z&n=1411757693253&url=http%3A%2F%2Fow.ly%2FBVsfG&usg=6OA6FqFLFKrCtNlNPqR5mPfkolk http://plus.url.google.com/url?sa=z&n=1411757693253&url=http.... This speaks to the EQ necessary in leadership. One must be able to discern how to deal with lows without losing employee or investor confidence and how to build personal, human, relationships that inspire those parties to believe in and support founders through those lows. Sometimes it's a matter of who a founder discloses what to. A mentor or coach can be a confidante who a founder turns to in order to ease the emotional burden without compromising team confidence. A good support system and being resilient / tenacious (through nature or nurture) certainly helps.