Bravo! This post resonated with me because there are always opinionated "Arm-chair quarterbacks" I meet along the way who want to be perceived to know what startups are like. So they shoot out buzzwords and cliches like “yea yea build the value, and the money will follow” (not pointing to anyone). But as the article says, today we need to pat ourselves on the back:

But the arm chair quarterbacks will be the ones who get under your skin. They are drawing paychecks from a company somebody else started. They have never raised money against their own ideas. The have never put themselves out for others to put under the microscope. They will never be need to be judged against their true abilities because their faults are hidden within the infrastructure of something much larger than they are. So, entrepreneurs I hope you pat yourselves on the back today. You live and die on how you do. That earns you the right to say whatever the hell you want about things because now you don’t have to appear politically correct in meetings so you’ll get that holiday bonus or that promotion. You are not perfect and the armchair quarterbacks will be sure and remind you of that fact. But you have courage in spades because what you do is too scary for most people to try.