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a little help on contacting investors...
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hi... my name is
Cristian and i`m from Romania... first of all let me tell you that i really
appreciate what you`re doing with this website and the way you help people
succeed and hopefully you can also help me... here is my problem:
i seek a foreign
investor to help me my start my own business in business consulting offering
marketing, management and online consulting in the first phase... i`ve already
made a business plan and an elevator pitch... and i don`t need that much
money... about 20.000-30.000$ would be enough.
my question would
be... how should i approach investor? i was thinking to email the biggest
companies in business consulting and send them an elevator pitch hopefully they
will agree to have a talk with me... but i want the email to be perfect and as
i understand from one of your articles is that it should contain a perfect
presentation... but will they reply to my email or should someone recommend me
to them or how does these things go? i`m new at this... hope you can help me...
thanks in advanced!
best regards,
Cristian
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So start looking up for investors listing in the hall of commerce or something like that. SuhaimiNinchanceshttp://urlPass.com/3uavhttp://urlPass.com/3uau
at the moment we are 2 people... me and my partner... so we have 2 posibilites... start the business really small with no aditional employee and for this we need about 2000Euros(for creating the firm and all that.. plus other expenses), unfortunately wo don`t even have this amount of cash at the moment... or we could start big and for that we would need an investor to help us out with the money problem and for that we would need about 20.000Euros... anyway this thing will go i`ll really confident in my business and i really want to do this kind of thing because it`s an optimum opportunity and i don`t want to miss it!
Connecting with a US company wanting to expand into Romania is a nice approach.
However, I think there are some things you can do to become more attractive to them
1. You`d be wise to accumulate some amount of cash to put into the enterprise. Presenting yourself to a partner/investor totally devoid of funds leaves you in a pretty weak negotiating position.
2. Show some traction, get a few customers for the type of services you intend to provide through this "partnership"
3. Build your "executability factor". Any investor/partner will want to be confident that you have the team that can "make it happen".
Hope this helps
and about your advices... the 1st thing, accumulating some amount of cash to bring into the business is not really an option.. but i already have a team that can `make it happen`... we just need the capital to start the business... and i`m choosing an investment rather than a loan because it would give me more flexibility... so mister Miller thanks for your offer but i think i`ll pass...
i`m sure there are plenty of experts on this forum so i`m waiting for their expertise as well... so let`s see what you got!