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 […]
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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
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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
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How to Make Investors Sit Up and Take Notice I’ve spent so much time discussing trust and relationship issues that you may imagine I’ve lost sight of the deal structure. Should you even consider the deal structure before you meet the dealer (the investor)? As a deal structure, will offering a royalty-based deal help make
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Do Investors Fund Ideas or People? I want to talk to you today about something that’s near and dear to our hearts at Intelliversity. The human factors of funding. As investors who work with people that are trying to get an idea or concept funded, we are well aware of the importance of a business
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Elevator Pitch for Investors (How to Charm a Stone) Investors are essential for business growth Charm warms up investors Brevity is the essence of charm. Have you ever thought it funny that we call the short business pitch an elevator pitch since most people keep to themselves on elevators? Well, maybe that’s because they don’t
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Listen Your Way to Funding – Master Listening (Part 2) Fast Track to Funding #4 Last week I introduced you to the concept of mastering listening as a skill set that we all think we’re good at, but few of us truly are – and to the idea that listening is a skill that can
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Want to be Heard? Want to be Trusted? Become a ‘Master Listener.’ – Fast Track to Funding #3 I’d like you to listen to me for a few minutes. Really listen. No phones, no distractions. No problem, right? After all, you’ve mastered the art of listening. That’s part of what makes you a great vision master.
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Why Vision Masters Need to Master CPR On the Fast Track to Funding #1 In my previous post, The Tale of Two Endings – The Power of a Promise Fulfilled, I discussed the power of making and keeping promises to generate investor trust. But there’s something equally important in the realm of having effective meetings –
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The Tale of Two Endings – The Power of a Promise Fulfilled Are You Fundable #9 We’ve covered a lot of ground the past few weeks and I hope you’ve gained a deeper relationship to why trust is so important in building relationships with investors. Did you get the allusion there? Trust is a relationship.
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