…trust. Trust is the silver bullet in the funding, in the business of getting funding. If you know how to evoke or generate trust by the investor trusting you, all…
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…trust with competency. Competency is a factor in building trust, but competency alone won’t get investors to trust you. Trust lives within a relationship. It is the product of interactions…
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…series. Here is the link. In the entrepreneur-investor relationship context trust has two components: Establishing trust at the outset of the relationship Maintaining trust through the investment process and beyond…
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…trust as they relate to your relationships with investors. We surmised that becoming truly related to an investor was a prerequisite to funding and that trust was perhaps the most…
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Deepening Investor Trust In You: The Master Funding Equation (Part 2) Last week we discussed the primary importance of developing initial trust with investors. No trust? No space to hear…
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…other words, what you don’t reveal actually reveals a lot about you that can destroy trust. What you do reveal, even if it shows your flaws, can build trust. And…
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…trust. Recall that we began this series discussing what trust is between an investor and an entrepreneur. We found that the trust you need to establish with investors can be…
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…control would only be 38% if they don’t trust you and 78% if they DO trust you. This is a big difference. If they don’t trust you, you lose control….
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…I’ve found to be truly invaluable in creating the type of alignment that creates trust within your team and trust among third parties like investors. I hope you’ll take on…
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Make Investors Sit up and Notice #9 – How “The Pivot” Engenders Investor Trust I promised you some time ago that in future posts we’d continue to explore ways to…
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