[SiliconBeach] Re: Is there a blacklist investors / insiders have when it comes to startups?

2015-05-09 Thread Alfred Moochacha
Thank you for the response. It brings up an interesting point - I would be interested to know the relative success rate of the non-monomanical obsessive entrepreneur, both in terms of VC interest / success ratio and just in general. I think it would be a good thing for society in general to hav

[SiliconBeach] Re: Is there a blacklist investors / insiders have when it comes to startups?

2015-05-09 Thread Alfred Moochacha
Great advice. Thank you Alan. Really helps put some perspective on things. On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 11:00:21 PM UTC+10, Alan Jones wrote: > > Hi Alfred, > > Yes, every time you pitch, meet someone, talk on the phone, send an email > or tweet something, the people you're interacting with are goi

[SiliconBeach] Re: Improving the real estate search, incrementally.

2015-05-09 Thread blindman2k
Thanks for posting this Lee. I like the interface but I don't understand the point. To advertise for free on your website, I would still have to pay REA or REV to advertise and then you take it from them. You add a little bit of general (but mostly useless because it is too general) reporting

[SiliconBeach] Re: Is there a blacklist investors / insiders have when it comes to startups?

2015-05-09 Thread blindman2k
Some good responses here and I expect a few more will come. From my experience, if you don't act like a dick (I love watching these people on Shark Tank), then potential investors will be happy to see you progress and invest when your business meets their criteria. I have piched multiple busine

[SiliconBeach] Re: Is there a blacklist investors / insiders have when it comes to startups?

2015-05-09 Thread drllau
> mean that potentially, when investors and the people that help inform the decisions on what to invest in / assist with, would blacklist you to an extent? not so much blacklist but perhaps not meet their screening criteria and thus not "worthy" of attention. The problem is that the traits you'