Vince Reed got a threatening email from a free member that made him consider shutting down his service. Another entrepreneur told him that trolling and threats mean you're reaching people and making an impact, a difficult sign you're doing something right.
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One day, you know, I wake up and I'm looking at my inbox and I'm seeing all these Cha Ching emails and then I see something that shook me to my core. And it's this email and it's, you know, a person that's using nativity, he's a free member and he proceeds to threaten my life. And I remember being shook. It was so bad that, you know, this one individual had me contemplating shutting the whole thing down because he was that crazy. And then I talked to another person who was doing really well online and he said, you know what? You should be happy someone's doing that. If people aren't trolling you, if people aren't being negative, if people aren't doing this, this type of stuff, then that means that you aren't trying hard enough to reach a market. The greatest people in the world sometimes get persecuted. He said, what that tells me is that you're actually doing something.