Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Takeaways from entrepreneur's meet up

Another evening, another startup/tech/entrepreneur type meet up. This time (yesterday evening) in a rather cool cafe.

Some takeaways:


  • there are other mobile app prototyping tools than PhoneGap - Titanium for instance
  • Approaching investors ...

... in answer to my question "what's a good way to make the initial approach to a potential investor/angel ...

The advice started off with 
  1. write a simple email (which we have already drafted) to 
  2. suggest a quick 10 minute meeting in a cafe near their office - people like to help people
  3. actually try first to connect with them via someone you know ....
... this became a big thing. The investor community is small and you may get "burnt out" if you are making cold approaches.

The last bit of advice has changed my thinking on approach and I will hold off sending the email we drafted yesterday and see who we could contact using our networks.

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