Don’t Hate
A good friend of mine and previous Junto Partner, Tamio Stehrenberger, once created the “Don’t Hate” t-shirt brand. I always thought that the brand was cool because it’s in align with my “Be cool” theory.
Anyway…the reason that I bring this up is because a blogger in Texas posted an entry about FundingUniverse.com and me that was definitely “not cool.” Of course, everyone has their opinion… so it’s not that big of deal.
Although, if you are going to state your opinion, don’t you think that you should be educated on the subject? This guy doesn’t know me from Adam. He has no idea what we have accomplished or what we are building. He also doesn’t know how accurate the article in VentureWire was — it’s not my fault that the VW article posted that we raised “less than $1MM.”
Either way, I’m really glad that he made the entry because “any PR is good PR.” I wish him the best of luck and only give him one piece of advice: “Don’t Hate!”
UPDATE: I read Mark Cuban’s blog this morning on criticism and I really like what he has to say. If you don’t do anything, you’ll never be criticized. If you are being criticized, it probably means that you are on the right track. Take the criticism, learn from it, and keep going!
