One of my clients raised $500,000 in only 8 weeks. I've helped countless companies raise money. Here's basic questions for you to prepare your pitch: 1. What is the problem you're solving? What is the pain your reducing / what is the pleasure you're adding? 2. What is the market? Who are your customers? What is their buyers profile? 3. What is your credibility? What are your past achievements / team profiles / awards / sales results / patents / etc? 4. How much money do you want? What will you do with the money? If you send me the answer to these questions, we'll schedule a conversation and I'll help you raise money. Love, Noam

It all depends on the state of your company and your negotiation power. Questions to explore will include: • How long have you been in operation? • What is your growth rate? • How many people in your team? • What is the value of your assets? (physical + intellectual) I'm in the process of doing pitch coaching for 30 startups raising $750k and $6M, and the accelerator has already asked me to do another round of pitch coaching for them in September. The basic principles for raising funds always the same: 1. Cut the crap from your business plan, your strategy and your pitch. 2. Build relations with investors so that they trust you and your business. 3. Pitching to investors is not selling your product / service, it's selling your company and yourself as an entrepreneur. 4. Prepare yourself 10,000% so that you are ready for all eventualities 1. Do you want some help preparing your company for investment? 2. Do you want some help with preparing your pitch to investors? 3. Do you want some help with reaching out to investors, build relations with them and ask for investments?

You say "I want to know how valuable a service that will bring one back to a state of inner peace, clarity and total presence, is to this business world" I coach entrepreneurs and business owners to create masterpieces in their field. One of the ways I help them is by guiding them through feeling inner peace, clarity and total presence. >> When you know the answer to this question, what difference does it make for you? >> Is what you REALLY want to know whether business people will pay you to help them feel more inner peace, clarity and total presence? >> Who do you REALLY want to work with? If you want to explore how to find clients for the services you offer, get in touch with me!

One of my clients received $500k funding ONE week after we did our pitch coaching session. What they learned from our session is to be 100% focused and not to follow the "scatter gun approach" that they had for the 9 previous months. Another client was looking for 50 investors, and after our coaching in 3 weeks he raised 65% of the funds he needed from 2 investors! He said "After our coaching session, the big change was that I realized that I just needed to approach confidently the bigger investors first." You can create very quickly a list of investors interested in your field if you ask the right questions and understand your business, and industry like a pro. Then you can start creating a more effective and efficient investors pipeline. Basic questions to have answers to are: • Who will be interested in your couture house? • Who will benefit from seeing you succeed? • Who will be hurt from seeing you succeed? • Who was in your shoes when they started? • Who is not yet in the industry and wants in? • Who are all the richest players in your industry? Other questions you will need to look into once you've got a list of investors to approach is: 1. How do you create a dynamic in which angels and investors WANT to meet you... rather you wanting to meet them? 2. What is your strategy for meeting angels / investors, for having conversations with them and for building useful relations with them? 3. How do you present your pitch? 4. What kind of questions do you ask angels / investors? If you want to dive in further on how you can raise the money your couture house, get in touch to arrange a call.

One of my clients received $500k funding ONE week after we did our pitch coaching session. What they learned from our session is to be 100% focused and not to follow the "scatter gun approach" that they had for the 9 previous months. If you're looking to fund a startup, or even an existing business, there is no chance you will interest all investors. Some investors are only going to be interested in seed funding, other will only be interested in medical, others in mobile technology, etc. The questions become: 1. Why do you want to find ALL NYC investors? 2. Who do you REALLY want to get investment from? 3. How much investment do you want? Another client was looking for 50 investors, and after our coaching in 3 weeks he raised 65% of the funds he needed from 2 investors! He said "After our coaching session, the big change was that I realized that I just needed to approach confidently the bigger investors first." And then you can start creating a more effective and efficient investors pipeline. Other questions that spark to mind become: 1. How do you create a dynamic in which angels and investors WANT to meet you... rather you wanting to meet them? 2. What is your strategy for meeting angels / investors, for having conversations with them and for building useful relations with them? 3. How do you present your pitch? 4. What kind of questions do you ask angels / investors? If you want to dive in further on how you can raise the money you're looking for... or if you're looking to create this list of angel for another reason, get in touch to arrange a call. Read more here: www.about.me/noamkos

People are all the same: everyone wants to be listened to, everyone wants to feel important, everyone wants to be in control of their own life, everyone wants to feel unique, everyone wants to feel like they belong, everyone wants a level of certainty, etc. EVERYONE is your team. Your clients are part of your team because they pay you to work together. The government is part of your team because they build roads for your employees to travel to your office more easily. >> If EVERYONE is on your team, what difference does it make... >> ... to you? >> ... to your employees? >> ... to your customers? >> ... to your wider network? >> ... to people who are not yet part of your network? One of my clients went from being a university student to leading an organization of 600 people in just 4 years. He learned to be an extraordinary leader and people decided to follow him. If you want to explore in more depth about to become the leader you want to be, if want to learn about how you lead beyond authority and if you want to explore how treating everyone differently will make you a better leader, get in touch!

You have an interesting product and you can definitely achieve 1,500 sign ups with no money. The keys to a good campaign are: 1. Leveraging your network and contacts - use your direct contact and expand your network to engage influencers in supporting your campaign 2. Using the ripple effects of your network, social media, articles, PR and videos 3. Having a great story to tell - if people can tell your story with as much passion as you can, they will do your promotion 4. Preparation and persistence - you need to do all your research and homework before the campaign start. You also need to set 100% of your time towards making the campaign a success. One of my clients had 4,700,000 views on her TED talk after only a 2h coaching session: http://www.ted.com/talks/esther_perel_the_secret_to_desire_in_a_long_term_relationship As a result she got a 2 page spread in the Wall Street Journal AND was invited on the Colbert Report!! Get in touch to talk about the practicalities for Kolos Wheel and how you can raise $75,000 from the launch campaign!!

I have worked with thousands of entrepreneurs and a lot of them are known for their kindness. Actually most successful entrepreneurs are kind and caring. If you're looking for big names, Richard Branson and Bill Gates, for example. There are many different ways of defining "kind". What do you mean by "kind"? What is the purpose of your question? What do you REALLY want to know?

There are different countries that offer great outsourcing value depending on your needs, timezones and budget. Eastern Europe has some great hubs (Hungary and Estonia for example), Asia has great engineers and obviously the USA (but they get a lot more expensive). What are you trying to create? What do you want to build?

As you can imagine this is a vast question. The key elements are to be able to pay attention in 4 different ways simultaneously: 1. Diffuse Focus: You must keep an open mind to give you a global vision of what is happening within and outside of your business. This means keeping up with industry news but also knowing what is going on outside of your normal frame of reference. Keeping this global vision helps you take better mid & long term strategic decisions without being overwhelmed by daily pressure. 2. Narrow Focus: You must keep a very narrowly focused set of priorities and short term action points based on your mid & long term strategies. Having a precise laser focus of activities helps increase day to day performance and return on investment. This is the way to grow in a lean way as well as to manage employees successfully. Having a clear narrow focus is the key to get things done. 3. External Focus: Being able to take distance from your business and taking unemotional decisions helps you take the right strategic decisions. You must be able to step away from your baby and do what is best for the business rather than holding on to the past. It is easy to become to attached to certain aspects of our business that is detrimental to the well being of the business. Taking an external focus helps you get distance and take the right decisions. 4. Immersed Focus: By being in touch with your personal vision, values and goals, your business becomes more than simply a cash cow. Knowing why you believe that your business adds value to the world and communicating it with your employees gives a meaning to their work. The best way to inspire others and to keep motivated through the difficulties of running one's own business is to be in touch with the meaning of what you do. If you can pay attention to your business in these 4 different ways simultaneously, you will stay on top of all the moving parts. This means you will be able to simultaneously understand what is going on in your industry at a macro-level, as well as how to manage employees, deal with customers, keep track of finances, and update your strategies to maximise success.