Starting a company is hard. Really hard. One might even say "wicked hard", if one were from Boston. That's the beauty of Against the Odds, an autobiography of James Dyson. See, no matter how hard things are, they're probably easier than they were for James. I knew that he had toiled for a long time to perfect the Dyson vacuum cleaner, but I didn't know how long. He spent years building prototypes in a barn while in debt that other might find crushing. He knew that he had something that worked, but all of the math he found to support his empirical evidence was "rubbish". Instead of trying to prove that he had something valuable by working out formulas, he proved it by building it -- over, and over, and over again. But it gets better. Even once he had a working prototype, he had a bear of a time getting funding. I'll admit, the first couple of chapters were a little slow (in my opinion), but the book on whole was fascinating.
If you're working on a tough problem that seems to be getting tougher by the day, pick up Against the Odds
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