Global investment Tips and Techniques for Entrepreneurs

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• Global investment Tips for Entrepreneurs

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Norman Brodeur - Global investment Tips for
Entrepreneurs

• Norman Brodeur is great entrepreneur, as a
  member of Private Capital Network (PCN)
  Archangel Global Investors, a Newport Beach
  venture capitalist network which finances
  passionate entrepreneurs, allowing them to live
  their dreams.
• Norman was also involved in the early financing
  of eBay, Netscape Communications (now part of
  AOL), Amazon, Broadcast.com (now the largest
  acquisition of Yahoo!) in addition to the JDS
  Uniphase SDL merger.

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Make sure it's what you want

• Make sure you want other people's money and
  interests mingling with your business. Taking on
  investors means giving away control and
  potential profit. Investor relationships can be
  very beneficial to the entrepreneur, but they
  also take time and management. Some investors are
  very hands off and make themselves available when
  your team needs them. Others will want to be in
  the mix with you, and your job is to
  diplomatically field their emails and phone
  calls.

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Have a positive attitude

• Be happy and hire happy people. Any investor will
  want to know that, A) you're passionate and
  motivated, and B) you've surrounded yourself with
  people who are, too. Hire happy people at every
  level, from truck team members to corporate
  staff. A positive team means a motivated and
  ambitious team that will help drive success.

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• Be prepared to work super overtime, break the
  results down into specific foreseeable levels and
  not stop until you can provide clear results on
  every level for all interested parties. Easier
  said than done, but after it's done, you'll make
  it look easy.

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Control your risk
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Think long term

• Think through the trajectory of your business.
  Investors want to know that you have thought
  about your future and that their investment will
  have a long-term positive impact.

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Wait until it's finalized

• Never consider the investment a done deal until
  the deal is actually completed. So many times, a
  business owner thinks they have a deal and then
  makes decisions based on that deal being
  consummated. When it doesn't happen, or the
  investor drags their feet, the results can be
  disastrous.

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