Bill Reichert - Convince Investors to Fund You: The Insiders Guide to Avoid Deadly Mistakes and Gain Real Success with Your Startup Business

Convince Investors to Fund You

The Insiders Guide to

Avoid Deadly Mistakes and Gain

Real Success with Your Startup Business

from GetTheBigYES.com

Tom Marcoux

Spoken Word Strategist

Executive Coach Pitch Coach

International Speaker-Author of 50+ books

CEO

A QuickBreakthrough Publishing Edition

Copyright 2019 Tom Marcoux Media, LLC

Praise for Tom Marcouxs Methods that Help Entrepreneurs
Gain Funding

Im truly grateful to Tom Marcoux for essential tips that helped me win the Grand Prize of the Pitch Competitionthe Igniter Summit in Bangkok, Thailand. Neeraj Aggarwala, CEO/Founder of Sportido

Youll learn to build and sustain a powerful motivation to keep focused and achieve your dreams. David Barron, co-author of Power Persuasion

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Concerned about networking situations? Get Relax Your Way Networking . Success is built on high trust relationships. Master Coach Tom Marcoux reveals secrets to increase your influence.

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In Darkest Secrets of Persuasion and Seduction Masters: How to Protect Yourself and Turn the Power to Good , learn how to defend yourself against manipulation.

Dr. JoAnn Dahlkoetter, Coach to CEOs and Olympic Gold Medalists

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CONTENTS*

* These are highlights. Much more is in this book.

DEDICATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work is dedicated to YOU. Here are Special Offers:

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This book also dedicated to the terrific Video/Audio Strategist and author Johanna E. Mac Leod. Thanks to Dave Hobley for our conversations. Thanks to Johanna E. Mac Leod for this books cover. Thanks to my father, Al Marcoux, for his concern and efforts for me and to my mother, Sumiyo Marcoux, a kind, generous soul. Thank you to Higher Power and to our readers, audiences, clients, my graduate students and my team members of Tom Marcoux Media, LLC and GetTheBigYES.com. The best to you.

Thank you to the contributors (including interviewees):

LaChelle Adkins

Marc Allen

Dr. David Bergner

Taylor Cone

Jeanna Gabellini

Natalie Glebova

David Joud

Guy Kawasaki

Jay Conrad Levinson

Dr. Frederic Luskin

Andres Pira

Bill Reichert

Danielle Strachman

Dr. Ginny Whitelaw

Henry Wong

Many blessings to you,

Tom

Tom Marcoux

Spoken Word Strategist

Convince Investors to Fund You

Imagine this: its your big moment. Either youre in front of a crucial audience and youre making the pitch of your life. Or youre sitting across from the investor who could launch your dream. Then your mind goes blank. What can you do?

This book, now in your hands, includes answers that I have communicated to audiences from New York to New Zealand (including Silicon Valley, California, Thailand and more). In my workshops Convince Investors to Fund You and Your Secret Charisma: Hidden Methods for Influence and Trust , I have revealed the secret-methods so that you overcome the tough moments that make or break your pitch or your life-changing meeting.

This book is designed to be a quick read.

We reveal answers to these questions:

• How do I convince investors to fund me?
• How do I create the slide deck that gains meetings with investors?
• How do I handle it, if my mind goes blank?
• How can I use hidden methods to convince the investor?
• What can I do if things go bad in a pitch meeting with an investor?
• How can I experience real confidence and gain the trust of investors? (Secrets of Extreme Confidence)
• How can I speak with No Fear?
• How do I show confidence when under fire from an investors tough question?
• What can I do if I lose heart in my project/company?
• How can I stay strong and keep going forward in the face of Rejection Trouble?

Youll find great value in how the book includes guidance from top venture capital leaders who use their power to say yes or no to startup companies. Youll find guidance from a billionaire, millionaires, top entrepreneurs and more.

Youll learn to avoid 3 Deadly Mistakes that can torpedo your efforts to gain investors.

These Methods Gain Results:

• Im truly grateful to Tom Marcoux for essential tips that helped me win the Grand Prize of the Pitch Competitionthe Igniter Summit in Bangkok, Thailand. Neeraj Aggarwala, CEO/Founder of Sportido
• Tom Marcoux has coached me to make my speeches compelling and powerful. He has helped me prepare for the media. And, hes helping me prepare my TED Talk. Do your career a big favor and engage Tom Marcoux, the Spoken Word Strategist. Dr. JoAnn Dahlkoetter, Sports Psychologist, author of Your Performing Edge and Coach to CEOs and Olympic Gold Medalists

Lets begin.

Section One

How do I convince investors to fund me?

Countermeasure: Use the 5 C's to create trust.

As he gave a pitch to fifteen investors circling a table, Sam faltered. The next five pitch-makers crashed and burned, too. My heart went out to them. I saw the disappointment on their faces. They knew that they had failed to connect. None of them gained funding.

It was worse. They didnt know what mistakes they made. Seeing such losses inspired me to write two books: Darkest Secrets of Making a Pitch to the Film and Television Industry and Soar with Confidence: Pitch Lead Succeed.

More than that, I created a workshop, Convince Investors to Fund You, that has served participants from Silicon Valley, California to Bangkok, Thailand.