Dave Kashen shares three tips for fundraising meetings: focus on how you show up rather than just your pitch deck, treat investors as partners evaluating mutual fit instead of gatekeepers, and use visualization before meetings to build confidence.
Here are 3 secrets that the best entrepreneurs use when raising money for their business. 1, instead of spending all the time on their deck and what they're going to say, they spend time getting clear about who they're going to be in the meeting— present, excited, confident, etc. 2, they don't put the investors on a pedestal. They see it as a mutual fit finding, and they're as much evaluating the investors as a fit as the investors are evaluating them. And 3, they use the tool of visualization just like the best athletes do. They spend time before the meeting visualizing exactly how they wanted to go.
