Be The Entrepreneur They Trust – The Master Funding Equation Last week I introduced you to my Master Funding Equation (MFE). In case you missed it, the MFE looks like this: A Viral Vision Statement/Elevator Pitch + A Powerful Pitch Method + The Correct Pitch Content + A Winning Business Strategy + A Trustworthy CEO […]
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Being the Pitch King or Queen – The Master Funding Equation We’ve been on this journey together for quite some time now. I continue to be inspired by the entrepreneurs like you who find a way to buck the odds and get the funding needed to turn your visions into reality. As I’ve looked back
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The Perfect Elevator Pitch Contest – It’s Your Time Fast forward a little in the future. IT WORKED! Your perfect elevator pitch worked. You got that funding you needed. How did that happen? You entered our contest and got the feedback you needed from an investor to hone your pitch. Last week we launched a
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The Perfect Pitch Contest – Do You Have A Winning One? Let’s have a contest to see who can create the most compelling Perfect Pitch using the method below. The perfect pitch can open doors to hundreds of thousands if not millions in funding. Here is how the contest works. You do your pitch using
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The Perfect Pitch – Is Your’s Music to an Investors Ear? Recall in a recent post I gave you the recipe for a great elevator pitch. If you haven’t read that post you can find it here. In that post I suggested that there are four specific elements to the perfect pitch: It must be
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Entrepreneurs Boot Camp Interview #12 – A Female CEO’s View From the Trenches If you’ve ever done a major home improvement project (or seen them done on TV) you know that in the midst of the project everything is a mess and looks far worse than it did before you started. A surgeon could tell
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Helen Keller once said, “alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” Actually, I think we all do quite a bit on our own. A lot of what makes us who we are is the grit and brilliance that mainly springs from within us. But maybe what Keller meant was that
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Entrepreneur’$ Boot Camp Interview 11 – Tested Funding Tip #2 Every once in a while I meet an entrepreneur who doesn’t mince words; doesn’t tell me what he or she thinks I want to hear, and doesn’t try to get me to drink his Kool-Aid. I appreciate those meetings because I can’t help people succeed unless
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Minutes from Brightness – The Innovation Manifesto Near the bottom of this blog, you’ll find the first in a series of tested tips on raising capital for your innovative venture, whether at the angel level or VC level. But first, let me entertain and inspire you: I care deeply about our future. Some tell us
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Pitching Investors Effectively #1 – The Knock Out I’m excited to share some new research, hot off the presses, that is sure to interest you if you’re preparing to raise capital or already in process with a funding raise. Sometimes, data paints a very clear picture that you can use immediately to your advantage in
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