Poll: What’s the worst part of starting or running a business? What’s the best part?

At the Idea+Space Beta Launch we asked everyone who came "What’s the worst part of starting or running a business? What’s the best part?" The results were pretty interesting. Here are the answers.

BEST

• Being your own boss
• Filling a need
• Helping people
• Using all my skills
• Creating your future
• Being passionate about my endeavor
• Building a team and making lifelong friendships & partnerships
• Thrilled customers
• Working for yourself
• Changing people’s lives
• Being able to circulate your ideas
• The feeling of self-accomplishment, the satisfaction of success
• No boss!
• Working on your own terms
• Controlling the types of projects
• Enjoying the payoff from my efforts!
• A job that fits me!
• Being creative

WORST

• Needing to draw boundaries and time for you
• Not knowing where to start
• Investing more $ than you should
• Figuring stuff out on your own (or thinking you have to)
• Feeling isolated
• No networking
• Fear
• Developing a scalable idea
• Bookkeeping & taxes
• Feeling alone
• Knowing it’s going to be a long process
• Networking as an introvert
• Lots of responsibility and upkeep
• Liabilities
• Financial risk
• Making payroll
• Sometimes it’s lonely
• Long hours
• Having to do everything 
• Finding a board for nonprofits
• Needing to change the plan
• Licenses & getting the paperwork right

We'll be using this data to plan more programs and recruit mentors. What else would you add?