This is entrepreneurial mistake #3. If you don’t ask for it, you can’t get it (except by luck). Sometimes we don’t ask for the things that mean a lot to us. It’s scary – what happens if you are turned down? Then you have to face the disappointment of… well… reality. It’s worse, though, to [...]
Read More... →When seeking investment for your startup, most investors will want to see a business plan. Typically, entrepreneurs begin to write a 20-page document that covers everything they can imagine. A more sensible approach is to look at the business plan from the investor’s perspective and provide them a shorter, high quality version of what they [...]
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