If you have work 100 hours a week to barely survive, then you are doing something wrong.

Building a business is very much a roller coaster ride.

You work hard to land a couple of deals. Then you work harder to make sure those deals stick. Then you figure out a way to hire or contract out the rest of the work. Then you try to land more deals and so on.

Hopefully, one day as a founder you are able to work as much or as little as you want and the business will still thrive.

Then, of course, you look to sell.

I don't the idea of extremes: "It's easy to build a business, I can do it on 15 hours a week." or "I have to work 100 hours just to break even and make payroll."

If you are doing either one of those, you have a problem, in my opinion.

A hearty "mmmmmmmmmmeehhhh" to that quote. Yay to the rest of the post.

There are plenty of non-failing businesses out there that do not require you to sacrifice your nights and weekends. The fact that you're not running one of those is neither a credit nor a discredit to you. It's just a certain type of business and a certain approach to business, which is not universal.

I guess that's because success and failure is a very subjective concept. Like these people would say success is closing a 10 million dollar deal. But for others having a small sustainable business that allows them to bring 70k at home and lot of free time to do other things is success and not failure.

Yeah the problem is probably that each on of them defines success differently.