How do you find an investor for your start-up in a tough economy?

They’ve gotta eat, right?

For an average of $10, I sat down with several amazing investors and got to pick their brains for an hour. This was when I was very first getting started and brought nothing but my enthusiasm to the table. And I brought lunch…

If you meet an investor you’d like to get to know, ask them if you can take them out to lunch. Before you invite them to lunch, I suggest you find out a little about them first and use it to stroke their ego a bit. Here’s what happened the very first time I tried this:

I was new at a networking event, and I asked a new acquaintance named Norene “Who do you know here that is doing really well?”


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