ryan d'amico of crocadoc, jessica mah and rod ibrahim.rt-up entrepreneurs, kind of a special "press here" where we have three ceos, one reporter. jessica, we were talking during the break about people underestimate how difficult this is. and the lack of glamour in the internet start-up. you wrote once it's like being an actor waiting for a part. there's skill and there's also luck. and the more you can share your struggle, the more people will stick with it. >> it's a lot harder than people think. like you look at tech crunch and you see all these success stories about facebook and youtube, but you don't realize how much work went into that. with my company right now, we've been struggling for, like, almost two years, actually. and although we just had a really successful fund-raise, like everyone's been complimenting us on our $1 million in the bank, a year ago we tried to raise money, and not a single person was interested. >> i couldn't agree more. just before we started, we almost completedly collapsed. we ran out of money. we let som