Reality of starting a peptide business

I'm in one of the top peptide brands in the world right now and I see everyone go try and start their own companies because they think it's as simple as just selling a bunch of bullshit research chemicals from China and calling it a day. But I promise you guys, it's really not as easy as that and there's a lot more to it that most people do not know about. There's a very few who actually know what they're doing right now. Firstly, it's literally almost impossible to get a payment processor because obviously you can't use the regular ones like Shopify or Stripe. You have to have connections to either do masking or get approved by a bank. Next, there's so many small details you have to know about such as getting your website compliance, what you're allowed to post, what you're not allowed to post and so many other things. Lastly, it's obviously going to be startup capital and investment. For every single lab test that we do, it's 10 to $15,000 like every two weeks or so. And even to build our website which was custom coded, it was over $50,000 we had to spend. We also spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in inventory as well sourcing from the US. Most importantly, with marketing and distribution, we spend over $100,000 a month for all our creators, influencers, affiliates. Lastly, there's always going to be huge risk of being shut down which happened to us and that put us at hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of debt which thankfully we were able to just now get out of. But yeah, if you're willing to take the risk and trust the process and figure it out like we did, it is literally the biggest opportunity within the past decade and extremely profitable and yeah, I love it.