Having someone hate on you is cool
You Need A Detractor. Bessemer Venture Partners humorously lists the great investments it turned down: Apollo, eBay, Google, Fedex, Hewlett Packard, CheckPoint, Intel and Apple. Most were well-reasoned declines, only wrong. Entrepreneurs are almost always pushing the envelope of reason, because big opportunities are derived from doing something that either few have thought of, or many have rejected as ill-advised. So unless you have at least one major detractor, then you are probably not on to something big. In fact, if everyone thinks it is a wonderful thing to do, then probably a legion of competitors is on the launch pad.
(Via: Daniel Isenberg)
