How many delusional entrepreneurs have you met? How many have you met that have poured their life savings and dreams into an idea? I've met a quite a few in the few years I've been doing this, and sometimes the stress will make a person break. Entrepreneurs with big exists have been glamorized in the media like rock stars, and therefore startups (and the dream) have become popularized. Maybe John Lennon can write the soundtrack to the entrepreneurs worse nightmare.

While I wish I could agree with your mockery about this, I think you're undermining very real threats that sadly exists in this day and age. It's even scarier when you consider location-aware, real-time social services... It won't surprise me if you see more of this behavior as the economic squeeze unfolds.

Not trying to sound like a CNN report, just saying there are valid reasons for concern and caution.

Sorry man, it wasn't my intention to ridicule a valid concern about people who get stressed out beyond imagination.

I think there is reason for entrepreneurial people to be more open about the negative effects of the emotional roller coaster that starting a business is.