shrug I used to be part of the "please give me permission to start a business by letting me into your seed program" crowd. My company made it to the final round

shrug I used to be part of the "please give me permission to start a business by letting me into your seed program" crowd. My company made it to the final round for a program and the end feedback was they didn't think we could deliver on what we were building. At first, I took it as le insult. An insult against my mad pr0grammer skills. In hindsight, I look at it as: my technology may have been OK, but it wasn't astounding enough to qualify as a revolution in the area and lead a big stampede to my door. It was a harder problem area (NLP). Something simpler with the same amount of persistence and execution may have led to much greater results. In hindsight I appreciate the honesty. They saw it before I did. The challenge is, people aren't ready to hear certain things until they're ready to hear it.