I truly do not know how to respond to this other than to say that the only kind of person who can make such a mean-spirited comment is one who has never experienced the deep dark hole some entrepreneurs experience when things go the wrong way. Some don't come out of the other side. What happened to me took place during the 2008 economic implosion. To put it in the simplest possible terms: All business came to a grinding halt. The music stopped and there were no chairs.

A friend of mind died in 2009 from the sheer stress this moment in history caused him as his business crumbled. That December I penned an email from the darkest place I have ever been. One that was prompted by a revelation I had that day: I experienced a level of clarity I had never before experienced. In a moment, I understood, in no uncertain terms, why someone would commit suicide, jump off a bridge, walk in front of a train or shoot themselves due to undue business pressure and financial troubles. I emailed a friend to let him know I now understood this. I wasn't quite there, but, for some strange reason, I had to share. He drove to my office and spent the rest of the day with me.

So, yeah, I don't know what to say to someone like you. My less-than-intellectual impulse is to deliver the most vile insult I could. Yet, that would mean descending to a level I am not interested in visiting.

I'll leave you with this: I hope you never get to experience some of what many entrepreneurs have to live through when things take a turn for the worse. If you do, I hope the experience humbles you and you become a nicer person.

Be well.