The Seven Deadly Sins that Prevent Investors from Funding Your Startup
Guest writer Joshua Lawton-Belous is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and an adviser at Newchip. You can follow him on Twitter @alertingmainst and connect with him on LinkedIn.Going after venture capitalists to invest in your company is a lot like dating. Get enough rejections and you’ll start questioning, “what’s wrong with them?”Unfortunately, the question everyone should ask instead is, “What’s wrong with me?”There are times when investors just do not understand what you are trying to do. These types of investors are never going to get what you are trying to do.The dirty secret is most investors don’t care what you are trying to do. They care about making money, their portfolio returns, and how those returns are going to impact their ability to raise additional fu...