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One way to grow your self-awareness is to clarify and articulate your core values. Understanding your— and others'— core values can lead to several benefits:
Clearer and more confident decision-making.
Inspired action-taking.
Ease of identifying the right stakeholders you want to partner with— investors, employers, advisors.
Better trust and alignment with people in your life— colleagues, reports, partners, family, and friends.
Greater personal satisfaction and fulfillment.
A friend of a friend happens to be looking to hire someone like you.
Your ex-boss decides to be an angel investor just as you choose to found a startup.
A relative happens to work for the key decision-maker at the very company you want to secure an enterprise contract with.
You successfully raise a round of funding, and an employee happens to know a team of talented, tight-knit engineers looking for a new company to work for—
— These serendipitous events can turn into great opportunities for everyone involved. However, unless someone activates their relationships and networks with clear intent, a lot of these brilliant opportunities can go by unrealized.
The opportunity: when you combine the right approach with modern-day technology, you can effectively activate your networks to reach people who would otherwise remain strangers.
How can you find the right investors for your company— the trustworthy ones that are values-aligned? How can you quickly fundraise so you can get back to building your company? In this post, I share the process and psychology behind fundraising to help you:
Find the right investors (and fast).
Secure the funds your company needs.
Get back to building your company.
As investors, advisors, and mentors who genuinely want to enrich the entrepreneurial ecosystem, our ongoing challenge is to strategically steward capital and people in a way that the resulting venture (business, fund, organization) is:
Aligned with people’s best interests and talents.
Supported by the right people, including investors, employees, teams and other key stakeholders.
Grown at the right pace and at the right time.
Structured with the best chance to succeed and scale.
In this post, I share some of my perspectives and thoughts. I also look forward to hearing your thoughts and questions and learning from your experiences too.
