If misery loves company - here's mine in a nutshell:
Sunk about $1.75 million into a mainstream business trying to keep it going for many years, finally had to nuke it - took about 2 more years to get disentangled from all the employees, investors, and board. Learned a lot of hard lessons about business and am now 2+ years into a second (very profitable) venture. So - just keep on cranking on the things you know and love best, learn your lessons and you will prevail in time!
