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11 Dec 2018Investors are not emotional buyers. They don’t window-shop so they can take their credit card out of the pocket and just acquire something. “Now, quick, or else….”. They need to see the company becoming, evolving, getting into troubles and solving some of them – before even considering an investment. Sometimes they do this openly, sometimes […]
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17 Jan 2014“If you are interested, please call at your convenience…” This is how 90% of all the emails through which young entrepreneurs are trying to get financing from GECAD. Wrong.
In: Books, Entrepreneurship / 2 comments
13 Nov 2013A few days ago I stumbled upon this material: http://reidhoffman.org/linkedin-pitch-to-greylock/. Although it’s a about a pitch in 2004 – it’s LinkedIn’s real pitch deck in 2004 for Round B investment – or maybe just because of that :-), it makes a very interesting read. It is commented and contextualized, with dos and don’ts.
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30 Jun 2013A very nice thing has happened lately – a group of Angel Investors have formed in Romania: techangels.ro.
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19 Apr 20131000. We’re talking here about the seed investment (the first money in the company). Whenever I had to raise an investment, to find investors for my ideas, I was amazed by the inability of those I talked to, to understand the huge opportunity I, in my greatness and benevolence, brought to their attention. I always […]