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95% of start-up's fail to breakeven within the first three years of operation, usually the term "make it" is floated around while describing the fate of a start-up. Since it's highly subjective as to whether an individual is satisfied with the outcome of their venture, irrespective of its cumulative P& L, it is preferable to use the term "breakeven". If I was to say 95% of all love stories end in heartbreak, most of the plays, poems, songs & movies about love stories would be in the tragedy genre, maybe a comic-tragedy with a dark sense of humour, at its best. An entrepreneur's venture is nothing short of a love story between his vision and apparent reality, the latter always trying to woo the former. Like in all good plots, the theory of constraints acts as the anti-hero here, trying to keep them apart. More often than not, it is more or less one-sided as both of them hardly ever get a chance to meet, eventually leading to heartbreak. As you browse through the pages, hopefully, which you would, it would dawn that it is written as the five common stages of grief to cope with a tragedy but in reverse, since we already know we are in a tragedy even before it occurs. However, there is a silver lining in the end as the sixth stage, because as clichéd as it sounds, the best part is, your love interest, your vision is truly only yours. We just have to find a way to sweep it off its feet.