What is the best way to approach a potential investor?

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What is the best way to approach a potential investor?

Answered by Shahar Nechmad – Founder, NuConomy Posted in Money

Through friends and people he knows well and trust (like other founders in his portfolio). For most good investors that's your only way to really get to them. (more)

I have created a small product of daily usage for family and homes. It will save water,light and give comfort to home-mothers. Tell me what are the best ways to market our ...

Answered by April Dunford – Product Marketing Expert.

I have no idea whether starting a business in a 3rd world country is better than a first world one or not - surely it would depend on the business you are in. You will need... (more)

Where do I find and what's the best way to approach a quality software engineer/architect to help me develop the website I've written my business plan for? I can only pay i...

Answered by Tim Berry – Founder of Palo Alto Software

You know that's hard to do. I'll tell you that with Palo Alto Software when we were struggling and broke but had some solid product ideas, I offered programmers a monthly f... (more)

What is the best way to approach a potential investor? We have a target list of people we'd like to get involved with our company but we don't know anyone who knows them to...

Answered by David Rose – Serial entrepreneur and investor.

In this day of social networking, it should be pretty near impossible for you to not know ANYONE who can connect you with an investor. I just checked LinkedIn, and there ar... (more)

What is the best way to get in touch with angel / early stage investors? My company is looking for an early stage injection of 75-100k, any suggestions? How do I pitch my s...

Answered by Corey Kossack – Partner, Game Change Ventures Posted in Money

The best way to get in front of investors is simply networking. There are a few competitions you can apply for that will help you get in front of investors (Open Angel Foru... (more)

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