I talked earlier about how everybody thinks your business model is stupid. This morning the NY Times had a quote from Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, that said it much better:
At the heart of any good investment, I tell investors, is a contrarian thesis that they and the company believe very deeply, and the rest of the world thinks is crazy.

[...] an entrepreneur you are building something most people don’t understand, using a business model people think is stupid. Your competitors are throwing rocks at you, large [...]