Answer to: Repeated unjustified comments "your demonstration sucks" during a presentation

Maybe you are both right. It is quite possible that both of the following are true: your invention / innovation is valuable; your presentation skills suck. Since I have no idea how your presentation looks like, I cannot advise you on how to improve it. I just recommend you to use some search engine and find good ways to present inventions / innovations, for the purpose of catching attention. While my colleague literally shouted to the director That should not have happened. Shouting is obviously bad presentation skills. Whatever happens, keep your calm. Would you buy something from somebody who shouts at you? ... the n+3 made this comment "I don't really believe in magic numbers" ... So your N+3 caught the expression "magic numbers". It is quite possible that he paid attention to the best of his abilities, but the was offered a "language" he could not understand or use. So he made the best comment the could, on the only things that he kind-of understood. I am considering open sourcing my approach Well, you need to do research about this too. Please note that I am not a lawyer, and I cannot give competent legal advice. The idea is that your work was done for your current employer. If your employer decides to not use it, does not mean automatically that the work is now your property. therefore, you might not be legally allowed to use it outside the company, for profit or for open source. If you find the legal background to take your work outside of the company, then you can either open your own company, selling licenses to your invention, or just sell your invention entirely to some other company. But first, clarify the legal aspects of the situation. Some brainstorming Since N+3 is non-technical, he is most likely an economist. Therefore, your presentation should have focused on things like number of product lines affected number of units produced per product line % improvement in the accuracy of the drones doing their job fuel-needs reduction increase of range / autonomy impact on final price I estimate that for him, the technical part of the presentation should have been maximum: 2 slides 1-2 minutes pictures and overview diagrams only 5% of the entire presentation. There is a known fact that if you write a document for 2 purposes, you need to change the content of the document quite drastically: dissertation for the PhD book for the large public. Another example: the business plan. It has totally different content based on the target audience: the customers the suppliers the development team the sales and purchasing the business partners.