I recommend reading Denny Mui's _Survival Guide for "Slow Start" Entrepreneurs_
http://www.amazon.com/Survival-Guide-Start-Entrepreneurs-ebook/dp/B0054ECIV6

Here's part of my review: This book has given me new and deep insights into my own successes and failures as an entrepreneur. I've marveled at the accuracy of Miu's concise characterizations of startup players, roles, and dynamics.

This makes my must read list for entrepreneurs, along with the documentary Startup.Com and Kawasaki's _Art of the Start_. It is a great counterpoint to the ebullient _Art_. It explains the train wreck chronicled in Startup.com and lived by so many others since then.