I found this really nice, I thought it will be useful in some ways. Brian Chesky on how he was rejected 7 times, in his attempt to raise $150,000 in 2008, at $1.5m valuation. The dude really has a very spectacular perseverance.
It’s Marc Andressen’s onion theory of risk when you get too many nos like yours. It actually signals you may be doing something really, really wrong in fact.