Psyching-Up to Ask Investors for Money
Finding the right person and asking them for money to fund your business can be daunting. First, you need to get your head straight! Here are some ideas…
Some Employee Interview Questions NOT to ASK
Train yourself (and anyone who does interviewing for you) to refrain from asking any questions related to age, gender, color, race, creed, national origin, religion, marital status, political belief, physical well-being, or disabilities.
Female Founders Are Getting Nowhere With Funding? A Response to Caroline Fairchild on LinkedIn
Do you believe Female Founders are getting nowhere with funding? The reality: businesses are complicated. There are a lot of moving parts so it’s up to you to make your deal make sense to an investor. If you allow yourself to believe that they’re not investing in you because you’re female, you’ve succumbed to what…
About Failing
The problem, as I see it, with encouraging failure, while the real message is intended to encourage taking action without fear, see what happens, learn from it and keep going, is still setting one’s goal / intention / expectation as “failure.” Encouraging oneself to “fail fast”, I believe, sends a faulty message.
Get a Life!
Excerpted from the book on mindful business management, Business Black Belt. “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” ~ Cyril Northcote Parkinson When you proactively fill your time, you can prevent BS from filling it for you. A friend of mine was complaining that many otherwise great projects were going undone…
