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Business Mentoring by Intelliversity

Make Investors Sit up and Notice #8 – Get Mentored or Coached

By Robert Steven Kramarz

Make Investors Sit up and Notice #8 – Get A Business Mentor Have you ever had a coach? How about a mentor? Perhaps you’ve never really thought about the difference between coaching and mentoring and have used the terms interchangeably. Today, we’re going to distinguish them. Coaching and mentoring, whether in sports, relationships, health or business, […]

Sandwich Strategy by Intelliversity

Make Investors Sit up and Notice #7 – The Sandwich Strategy

By Robert Steven Kramarz

Make Investors Sit up and Notice #7 – The Sandwich Strategy First, credit where credit is due:  This term, the “The Sandwich Strategy” comes from George Kenney, co-founder of VC Shepherd Ventures and founder of the Entrepreneur’$ Bootcamp.  Let me say something before we go on. When a successful venture capitalist tells you what affects his […]

Effect action with investors by Intelliversity

Make Investors Stand Up and Notice #6: How to Take Effective Action When You are Under the Gun

By Robert Steven Kramarz

Make Investors Stand Up and Notice #6 – How to Take Effective Action When You are Under the Gun In my last post, I discussed the importance of being coachable and focused on a key aspect of coachability — listening. I made the point that being coachable generates trust and therefore a great way to […]

Are you coachable by Intelliversity

Make Investors Sit Up and Notice – #5 – Prove You're Coachable

By Robert Steven Kramarz

Make Investors Sit Up and Notice – #5 – Prove You’re Coachable Today, I want to share something else that can set you apart from the crowd and make investors take a serious look at you, even if they still feel there is a lot of risk involved. But first, let me ask this question. […]

Royalty Funding

Royalty Funding – Why Is It So Rare

By Robert Steven Kramarz

Royalty Funding – Why Is It So Rare So is the man in the picture taking or replacing the golden egg? Depends. Is he the investor or the entrepreneur? Park the question for now. Here’s a true story you may find familiar:  a young CEO is running an exciting start-up in the field of agriculture, […]

Make Investors Sit Up and Notice #4 – How to Get Out of Investor Hell

By Robert Steven Kramarz

Make Investors Sit Up and Notice #4 – How to Get Out of Investor Hell A colleague who runs a very successful software company once told me that he plans for incompetence because most people are incompetent. Pushed for an explanation of this interesting viewpoint he said that it’s because of how fast the world […]

Make Investors Sit Up and Notice #3 – Hint: It's a Team Sport

By Robert Steven Kramarz

Make Investors Sit Up and Notice #3 – It’s a Team Sport OK, Vision Masters (innovators, founders), it’s time for a pop quiz . . . Who is Gene Kranz? Now, if you don’t know off the top of your head, don’t feel bad. Although he’s been portrayed in several major motion pictures and had […]

Fresh Eyes Assessment

Business Strategy and Status Quo – a Fresh Eyes Assessment

By Robert Steven Kramarz

Dr. Stephie Althouse is a faculty member with Intelliversity. Her business focus is making companies more profitable and more fundable. Robert Steven Kramarz, Intelliversity’s Executive Director Business Strategy and Status Quo – a Fresh Eyes Assessment Have you ever wondered what a strategic audit could do for your business? Would it be useful for your […]

How to Make Investors Sit Up and Notice #2 – Be in the 1%

By Robert Steven Kramarz

How to Make Investors Sit Up and Notice #2 – Be in the 1% The world is crowded with capable entrepreneurs. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say that virtually everyone reading this blog is a capable entrepreneur. If you weren’t capable and driven and creative and brilliant and a host of other […]