Reminds me of the old adage which partly reads "...if your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."

From Bessemer Venture Partners site:

> Cowan’s college friend rented her garage to Sergey and Larry for their first year. In 1999 and 2000 she tried to introduce Cowan to “these two really smart Stanford students writing a search engine”. Students? A new search engine? In the most important moment ever for Bessemer’s anti-portfolio, Cowan asked her, “How can I get out of this house without going anywhere near your garage?” <

http://www.bvp.com/portfolio/antiportfolio.aspx

This was around the time that we all were pretty convinced that search, at best, was really boring.

All ideas are not believed at first, not even by the people that think them. That's just nature of things. We need first fully form it ourselves and then present it coherently, prove it to ourselves and others.