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The founder of Silicon Alley Reporter and Mahalo.com offers advice from the trenches to entrepreneurs in trouble.

We're going to find out who the real entrepreneurs are in 2009 because they are going to spend another 12 months, on top of the last six, cleaning up the mess. It will be two years of total pain, so before we go any further, you gotta make the decision if you're in or you're out.

Here is a really easy way to figure out if you can deal with the mess in front of you. Ask yourself if you can handle the following situations...