To the founders on here: which item would have helped the most reduce the stress

1. more (or more secure) money. If you got your house paid for and a decent salary guaranteed for two years while you got the thing started, would that have helped?

2. A wingman - someone you trusted utterly with you each step of the way (but harder to provide than the above)

3. Other

I ask because if I was a VC and my stable of startups could improve their hit rate with say, 1) then it seems a no brainer.

I am just wondering if the VC game is rigged to be like a hazing - we cannot find any other decent way to sort the winners