Get Your First Investor Meeting: Creating a Kick Ass Executive Summary: Entrepreneur Series, #2
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If you want to get your first angel investor or venture capital investor meeting then this book will help get you there. Whether you are a complete newbie or have been building your business for years, we've written the guide to creating a clear, concise and compelling executive summary that will get you those first investor meetings.
Follow this approach and you'll be on your way to your first angel or venture capital investor meeting and the funding you need to realize your business dreams.
This book Includes:
- Why Knowing How to Create Executive Summaries will Help Your Entrepreneurial Career
- The Key Elements of a Kick Ass Executive Summary
- The Executive Summary Format that Works
- Common Mistakes that Stop Entrepreneurs Getting Investor Meetings
- Founder Tips to Increase Your Investor Traction
Andrew D. Ive
Andrew spent his early career at world class blue chip marketing and innovative organization Procter & Gamble (Europe) Ltd. but high growth and white space opportunities is Andrew's passion. While at Harvard, Andrew took an unformed opportunity and created value - starting from a new product idea, founded X-IT Products, named one of United States ‘Top 10 Start-ups’ by a leading Entrepreneurial magazine and went on to win a ‘Business Week’ product design award. Andrew established a manufacturing facility in China and recruited a sales force to sell his first solo product into major US retailers. Andrew and the X-IT Product ladder were involved in a legal case that resulted in the largest corporate award in Virginia State history for his investors. Andrew then founded a Silicon Valley company focused on solving data challenges between manufacturers and retailers. While CEO, Andrew built and led the executive team; Chaired the Board; raised $21M of capital, and began new partnerships and customer relationships with Home Depot, Black & Decker, BJs and others. Recently, Andrew joined a small software/SAAS Silicon Valley based company and spent six years focused on driving strategic relationships, working with the core team to grow and prepare that company for an IPO. Model N successfully went through the IPO March 2013. Andrew has expertise in innovation, developing new markets, new initiatives and high growth businesses opportunities. He has served on the Board of the Small Business Council of the Department of Trade and Industry advising the UK Government on entrepreneurialism and high growth companies; worked with the National Science Foundation, the Investment Task Force (UK Government Task Force) and Centre for Policy Studies, Small Business Council (UK Think Tank focused on Small Business).
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Get Your First Investor Meeting - Andrew D. Ive
IMPORTANT: BEFORE YOU GO ANY FURTHER
Before you pull out your virtual wallet, withdraw your even more virtual credit card and purchase this book, we should make sure you realize exactly what’s inside.
Executive summaries are used in a number of ways in business. This book is absolutely focused on just one of those uses namely to help founders, entrepreneurs, owners and startup geeks to position their companies to potential investors clearly, concisely and simply as investment opportunities for their consideration.
If you are looking to get your idea, business plan or existing business funded by angel or venture capital investors then this book can help you get that all important first investor meeting.
After you’ve learnt how to create a kick ass executive summary and how to engage with your potential ideal investor, you’ll be ahead of the pack throughout your entrepreneurial career. Those who try to ‘google’ their way to million dollar funding may get lucky but they’ll probably spend more months than they should getting their investors.
Those months could be critical when bringing a new product, service or company to market. Worse yet, if they strive to get an investor and are overly wrapped up in the transactional side of the investment while ignoring fit, shared vision and founder / investor chemistry, the seeds of destruction and failure could already have been sown.
Wow! Sounds kinda heavy doesn’t it?
The fact is I’ve seen it happen - founders driving to get the investor cash at any cost, haggling their way to a marginally improved valuation and ending up with investors who find it challenging to get on the same side of the negotiating table to help build a great business with the hardnosed founder and could have a very different view of where to take the company.
So if you are about ready to get out into the world and start the conversation about your company with your potential ideal investors then get this book.
BONUS:
To download a mind map which outlines the 3 Critical ‘Must Haves’ for your first Investor Meeting - come to http://www.AndrewIve.com/3musthaves
About Andrew
Andrew D. Ive is an in-demand Coach and Speaker focused on helping startup and fast growing company founders launch, fund and grow their startups across the globe. His focus on growing young businesses began with his own startups, during which he raised over $20M, yet his real passion has been helping companies start, grow and lock in funding with their ideal investors.
During a four year project in the United Kingdom, Andrew worked alongside other funding leaders as part of the Investment Task Force focused on creating a better Start-Up environment for the country. Selected from over 2000 entrepreneurs, Andrew joined the Department of Trade and Industries’ Small Business Council Board working with entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors. As part of the task force, Andrew discovered that great founders were failing to get funded because they were not considered ‘investment ready’. Being undercapitalized was the major obstacle for many companies that had the potential to be great. Frustrated that good businesses were failing, Andrew set out with a passion to work with other leaders and start-up founders to help them overcoming the key obstacles to funding.
The Funding Guru blog, products and services was started with a commitment to delivering resources to help start-up founders understand how to become investment ready, raise funds and achieve their vision for their company’s growth and success.
Often accused of being a Harvard MBA, Andrew is far from being an academic, bringing real world start-up, company growth and fund raising experience to his coaching, his speaking, books and tools – all with one mission to helping start-up and growing company founders launch visionary, business building, job creating companies globally.
If you are a company founder – reach out – there’s many ways we can help you whether it’s through coaching, helping you connect with people in our network, finding great team members, even a quick Q&A if you have questions about funding, starting or growing a great business.
Reach Out
Meet Andrew at http://www.AndrewIve.com and http://www.TheFundingGuru.com
Chapter 1: Writing Kick Ass Executive Summaries
Why You Should Master Creating Your Own Kick