{"id":11,"date":"2005-12-15T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T09:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/2005\/12\/15\/track_record_and_your_personal_brand\/"},"modified":"2005-12-15T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T09:55:47","slug":"track_record_and_your_personal_brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/archives\/track_record_and_your_personal_brand.html","title":{"rendered":"Track Record and Your Personal Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VCs and investors like to see entrepreneurs with a great track record.  It makes them more likely to invest in you versus somebody with no track record.  These are:<br \/>\n1. Number of businesses started, and even better a number of wins (versus losses).<br \/>\n2. Ever increasing amount of money raised in subsequent ventures.<br \/>\n3. Great references, other entrepreneurs who love you, as well as investors.<br \/>\n4. You and your team have worked together in the past and thus, have shown the ability to have a successful working relationship.<br \/>\nIt really makes you think about your own brand and how people have felt about working with you.  I have met people with little or no brand and they are having a dog of a time finding funding in a time when it seems like money is flowing again.  And I have met people with incredible brands who get money or are called back for subsequent meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VCs and investors like to see entrepreneurs with a great track record. It makes them more likely to invest in you versus somebody with no track record. These are: 1. Number of businesses started, and even better a number of wins (versus losses). 2. Ever increasing amount of money raised in subsequent ventures. 3. Great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angel-investing-venture-funds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}