The Value of Prepping for Due Diligence: Interview #2 – Respect
The Value of Prepping for Due Diligence: Interview #2 – Respect Ever feel like Rodney Dangerfield? Sometimes, no matter what you’ve accomplished, how great your idea or business is and how stellar your team, when it comes to investors you just “can’t get no respect,” as Rodney famously said. Krista Whitely was feeling that way […]
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The Value of Prepping for Due Diligence: Interview #1 – Mindset
The Value of Prepping for Due Diligence: Interview #1 – Mindset 100% success. Companies that surpass a score of 925 in the Blue Moon “Capital Readiness Report” receive the funding they’re seeking — nearly 100% of the time! Let me explain. One of the issues that often arise in the funding game is due diligence. And, […]
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The Neglected 97% Entrepreneurs Boot Camp – Interview #6
The Neglected 97% Entrepreneurs Boot Camp – Interview #6 The familiar saying is that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Fortunately, that adage doesn’t apply to people. At least some people. Take the case of experienced, successful entrepreneur Bill Haynor. After a successful career in banking and finance, Bill formed, grew and ultimately […]
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The Neglected 97% Entrepreneurs Boot Camp – Interview #5
The Neglected 97% Entrepreneurs Boot Camp – Interview #5 First off, may you be very HIP in 2018 — Happy, Innovative and Prosperous! I trust you’ve enjoyed the series of stories and interviews I’ve been posting over the past few weeks. Each story is unique because the journey of every visionary entrepreneur is different. Yet, […]
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Innovations: The Neglected 97% Entrepreneurs Boot Camp – Interview #4
Innovations: The Neglected 97% – Entrepreneurs Boot Camp Interview #4 Sometimes the greatest gift a mentor can provide to an entrepreneur is a truly honest assessment of his or her business concept, because as I learned from talking with Rahul Chaturvedi, CEO of Once Lab, an honest assessment can save a lot of precious time; […]
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Innovations: The Neglected 97% – Entrepreneurs Boot Camp Interview #3
Innovations: The Neglected 97% – Entrepreneurs Boot Camp Interview #3 A few years ago, Adolfo Meza and a friend were having a conversation that will one day change the way you find entertainment — and most certainly how your children and grandchildren find it. Adolfo is an engineer and had spent ten years plying his […]
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Innovations: The Neglected 97% – Entrepreneur Interview #2
Innovations: The Neglected 97% – Entrepreneur Interview #2 I never tire of talking with innovators; intrepid vision masters who buck the odds, find their way through the maze of advice and challenges and build companies that make a lasting difference in the world. The ones that stop at nothing to come out the other side […]
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Innovations: The Neglected 97% – Entrepreneur Interview #1
Innovations: The Neglected 97% – Entrepreneur Interview #1 Innovator, entrepreneur, CEO, founder…are you feeling neglected? Do you feel that you would be in the 3% if you could just crack the investor code? You can you know. We know you can. When you read this entrepreneur interview you’ll see why we know. Venture Capitalists invest […]
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The Entrepreneurs Journey Through Hell – Part #1
Elon Musk was never “certified” to launch and scale a company. But Elon Musk has gone through more than his share of adversity. You probably know of the bullying he experienced in school. When he was serving as CEO of PayPal, he was apparently “the victim of a coup,” getting fired while he was on vacation. […]
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Pitch and Win #4 – Become the "Investor Whisperer" (Part 2)
Pitch and Win #4 – Become the “Investor Whisperer” (Part 2) First, let me tell you the reason I am writing article after article. I want YOU and your team to be the prize, the one that investors choose to fund. I want you to look like the happy people in the picture, to be […]
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