• Establish a relationship before you ask people favors, is what I told an investor today who deployed loan-shark tactics to a European startup and having the company moved to the U.S. now finds out that growing the business requires more than money, it requires authentic vision and relationships based on respect. Squeezing entrepreneurs does not garner my respect.

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