[mgkimsal]

There were hundreds of times that we should have "folded."

Was one of those times being, oh, I dunno, $180k in personal debt? Just pulled that number out of thin air (didn't happen to me personally), but I would disagree (as would your bankers/financiers/investors) that there is never a time to 'give up'. You could perhaps mask it as a 'pivot' (or whatever term is in vogue at the time) but "giving up" is something some people eventually have to do.

Congrats on doing $1M in business. Realize that you didn't get there solely because you didn't give up, though. There were other factors involved beyond just "keeping on keeping on". I don't even know what those factors were, but they existed.