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How To Handle Rejection of Your Idea

Experiencing rejection of your idea can feel like a punch to the gut. Whether it's a proposal, a suggestion, or criticism, the initial sting can be hard to shake off. But rejection isn't the end—it's an opportunity for growth and improvement. Personal Experience

How to Handle Rejection of Your Ideas

Robert Scoble - Technical evangelist, futurist and author

Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technology evangelist at Microsoft. He currently works for Rackspace and the Rackspace sponsored community site Building 43promoting breakthrough technology and startups. He previously worked for Fast Company as a video blogger. You can

Robert Scoble -  Technical evangelist, futurist and author

Rahul Sood - co-founder and CEO Unikrn

Rahul Sood is the CEO of Unikrn, a Seattle based eSports startup. Previous to Unikrn, Sood created the first incubation fund for startups at Microsoft, and eventually Microsoft consolidated their global startup activities under Sood’s leadership.  In June of 2013 he launched Microsoft Ventures. A serial entrepreneur, Sood spent

Rahul Sood - co-founder and CEO Unikrn

D.P. Venkatesh - founder of mPortal

D.P. Venkatesh has more than twenty five years experience in the Communications industry across Mobile, Internet, Cable and Media sectors. His roles have varied from executive management to strategic planning, product management and business development.As CEO of mPortal, Mr. Venkatesh oversees all aspects of strategy, sales, and marketing

D.P. Venkatesh - founder of mPortal

Bob Metcalfe - Inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3COM

Bob Metcalfe, engineer, technology executive and venture capitalist, invented the Ethernet. He attended MIT and Harvard University, studying mathematics and computer science, before joining Xerox's Palo Alto Research center. It was there that he was inspired to invent the Ethernet in 1973, which allowed computers to send packets

Bob Metcalfe - inventor of Ethernet

Jim Sutton - Inventor of touch computing

Jim Sutton had a long and distinguished career at HP across a number of product groups such as calculator and PC. While many thing the touch devices such as smartphones are a recent development, in fact Jim led the team that developed basic touch technology back in 1983 leading to

touch screen computer

Tim Berners-Lee - Inventor of the Web

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He founded and Directs the World Wide Consortium (W3C) the forum for technical development of the Web. He founded the Web Foundation whose mission is that the WWW serves Humanity, and co-founded the Open Data Institute in London. His research group

Inventor of the web

Chuck House - former HP executive and inventor of the Moon Monitor

Chuck House is co-author with Raymond Price, of THE HP PHENOMENON: INNOVATION and BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION (2009, Stanford University Press). He is Exec Director of InnovaScapes Institute, which published his memoir of HP Colorado Springs, PERMISSION DENIED, in 2013. House, Chancellor Emeritus of Cogswell Polytechnical College, was also executive director of

Chuck House at TEDx

Geoffrey Moore - Author of 'Crossing The Chasm'

Download KI_20090825_Interview_With_Geoffrey_Moore_Part_2.mp3 Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and advisor who splits his consulting time between start-up companies in the Mohr Davidow portfolio and established high-tech enterprises, most recently including Salesforce, Microsoft, Intel, Box, Aruba, Cognizant, and Rackspace. Moore’s life’s

Crossing The Chasm

Art Fong - Hewlett-Packard Employee #9

Download KI_20090802.mp3 Here is an interesting question. If Microwave Engineer Art Fong had decided to turn down Bill Hewlett's job offer back in 1945, how would the Hewlett Packard product line of microwave signal generators, bridges, and a long line of spectrum analyzers be different today?

Art Fong - Hewlett-Packard Employee #9