I’ve been planning my own startup and its nice to read your insights about the subject.

good luck!

You’ve done a good job and I can tell you’ve put in a lot of work. That’s incredible that within 12 hours you had 500 hits!! I too am just starting a website and wish I had as many hits as you in a month. Have a look at http://www.ongobee.com and let me know what you think.

Keep up the good work.

I went through exactly the same process.

Whenever I feel down I just keep the following two things in mind:

- If a give it a 110% then at least I’ve tried.
- Everything takes about twice the amount of time I expected it to cost: relax breath and deal with it.

I hope your WP themes website takes off well. Selling WP themes still has big market potential.

I know exactly how you feel and alot of what you have written including taking to your girlfriend and other designers are things that I have been through. In fact, I am still learning to reach out and establish more relationships with designers so that we can bounce ideas back and forth.

I launch http://flickthis.tv last year in a hurry and didn’t promote it on other blogs or do any give aways or do any of the cool things we all know we should do. All I did was tweet and facebook about it and guess what? The numbers sucked. In fact, they are still alot lower than I would like. Not to mention that I too get distracted working on other sites and have put this one on the back burner a few times. I’ve recently picked up steam with it again, changed a theme for a 3rd time and set a plan/goal in place for the way it is promoted and updated. I too should have done this sooner lol.

This whole HTML5 / CSS3 thing.

Where does it say that on the front page?

And if I am to believe your story whole, then this is crucial:
After breaking down one night from all of the pressure and talking with my girlfriend for about 3 hours, just venting all of my frustrations and fears, I felt a lot calmer.
She’s your big secret, you lucky dog!

And that’s why I personally believe that women need to be themselves and stop copying men in everything. Men can’t repair some things that women can.

Tim – No worries, I know you wouldn’t be wishing that on anyone. I know what you mean though. I’ve had some conversations with people over the past couple days that really opened my eyes to just how many people go through exactly what I’m going through right now.

I’m glad you liked the article.

Wow! Those lines really impacted me. Sometimes, when you’re down and you’re business efforts aren’t going well… it tends to make you feel small, insignificant and alone. Although, by no means I would wish anyone to have hard times… it does feel nice to not be the only one in the struggle. Thanks a bunch for the inspiration.