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Don't Be Casual
Coming out of the Venture Capital in the Rockies conference, I was pleasantly surprised with how solid most of the presentations were. There was plenty of pre-conference preparation, practice, and iteration from the companies presenting – and it showed.

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“Strategic Thinking Applied to Making Winning Presentations to Investors”
As a business coach I find that business people always seem very interested and eager for advice on how to make winning presentations. And recently there has been an increased interest in seeking advice for making winning presentations to investors for their business. They want to know how best to prepare that winning presentation to a prospective investor. Applying strategic thinking to this request, here are ten actions I recommend to anyone desiring to make a winning presentation to investor(s).
Great Example of Blogging Changes to Your Product
I'm a small investor in Shelfari. I read a ton and thought it would be fun to play along with them at home and both a user and an investor. About a month ago I started noticing increasing chatter about Shelfari spam during the invite process in my RSS search feeds on "Shelfari." I regularly passed them on to Josh Hug, the CEO of Shelfari.
The VC Version of Kick the Can
I got an email this morning from an entrepreneur that I know that has been trying to raise an early round from a "seed VC investor" for the past few months. He's put together (and closed) a decent angel round and left it open for this seed investor.
ATTRACTING INVESTORS: A Compelling Executive Summary in 10 Items or Less
Attracting an investor is like attracting a mate—you want to pique the investor’s interest without showing all your cards at the outset. The perfect vehicle for achieving this delicate balance is the Executive Summary. The goal of an Executive Summary is to whet the appetite of the investor by presenting a compelling premise, an irresistible hook. Your short (5 pages or less) document is meant to give a potential investor every reason to say “yes” and little reason to say “no” to a face-to-face meeting.

Investor Presentations: The How To's of Success
Few presentation appearances will test your ability to communicate more than the investor presentation. For better or worse, judgement of your performance will be swift, usually within the first thirty seconds. Even with these high stakes, presenters make some common mistakes in preparing for these crucial business presentations. Here are some basics to keep in mind before your next investor presentation.

Writing a Compelling Executive Summary
Most guides to writing an executive summary miss the key point: The job of the executive summary is to sell, not to describe. Your goal is not to explain your business to the investor; your goal is to convey the essence of what makes your business exciting. If you accomplish that, the investor will not only want to find out more, he or she will want to help you be successful.

Entrepreneur? - What the Heck is that?
According to most dictionaries, an entrepreneur is a business person who willingly takes a new idea, concept or enterprise. He or She will take on the full responsibility for the outcome. They provide more then capital. Just providing capital would make them an investor, not an entrepreneur. An investor usually will let someone else handle all the day to day business activities.

Real Estate Wholesaling - Report from the Field
Before I get to that I want to address the fact that anyone that desires to make a go of it in real estate investing needs to assess their intentions and frame of mind prior to writing their first offer. In fact, I feel it is imperative that every new prospective real estate investor, whether wholesaler or “Fix and Flipper,” should be mentally prepared to 1) make sacrifices and 2) wait patiently.
Defining “Hard Money”
Even though the rates can be high, hard money can be quite useful when an investor has an opportunity to buy a property for a low price and sell it for a profit. Simply put, hard money even with its drawbacks can be a great tool in providing the capital necessary to facilitate a Real Estate Investor.
Market Rent Analysis
Market rent analyses evaluate the subject property, competing properties, and market conditions to document an equitable level of rent in an arm’s length transaction. Estimates of market rent are developed regularly for market studies, appraisals, lease disputes, and to provide an owner or prospective investor with objective opinions.

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