personal-pitch 
Berkonomics
AUGUST 3, 2023
Using your bank credit line and credit cards: Even with the credit crunch signaled by the recent threat of recession, many banks will issue business credit cards with a $50,000 limit if the entrepreneur is willing to personally guarantee the balance, and has the net worth to do so. These include Y-Combinator and TechStars, among others.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 2, 2020
That’s why I caution my aspiring entrepreneur clients against proclaiming to investors that they are a great “idea” person. In addition, creating a business requires leading and interacting with other people, including partners, investors, and customers. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D.
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Berkonomics
JUNE 8, 2017
Using your bank credit line and credit cards: Even with the credit crunch signaled by the recent recession, many banks will issue business credit cards with a $50,000 limit if the entrepreneur is willing to personally guarantee the balance, and has the net worth to do so. It’s an option, even though an expensive one.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 20, 2018
This is true of any buying process where a customer has to make a large investment decision on your software or when an investor must decide whether to give you $5 million. I spend a lot of time coaching entrepreneurs through their fund-raising processes by doing “pipeline reviews” of all of the firms with whom they are speaking.
LATechDigest
MAY 22, 2016
It has not been an easy path, but through her own life lessons Kashani found a need to help individuals overcome their own personal challenges, and has launched CoAccel, The Human Accelerator. It spawned from my personal story. She gave me the tools, resources and support that I so desperately needed; and I did the work.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 28, 2010
They wanted to be able to say to their senior person (who had hired Accenture in the first place) that they had been good corporate citizens but they had no real intention of actually helping me with me work. I come from a world that if the coach wasn’t yelling at you, it meant he didn’t care. Make your arguments fact based.
InfoChachkie
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
Along with Selling (see Be Like Sam ) and Networking (see Making Stone Soup and Personal Pitch ), negotiating is a vital startup skill. Most rational adults are fairly judicious with their own money (obviously to varying degrees), but many of these same adults often spend their company’s money as if it is an infinite resource.
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