Funding Soul Mate
Karl Dakin
Capital Coach | Stakeholder Investor Campaigns | Design, Stage, and Manage or Support | Reduce Time, Money, and Risk of Raising Funding | Increase Probability of Success! | Opportunity Management
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?·?????? Quick Calendar
·?????? Funding Points
·?????? Successful Funding
·?????? Don Cohen Show
·?????? Opportunities
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?QUICK CALENDAR
?I quickly list here upcoming opportunities where I will be sharing information, lessons in funding, or meeting in person or via videoconferencing.
?Tomorrow, May 31 (change of date from Tuesday to Friday) – Successful Funding - Back Office – Justin Lowell
?June 4 – Successful Funding – Leadership – Kon Apostolopoulos
?June 12 - SuperCrowd Chicago – Workshop on Crafting Crowdfunding Offers
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FUNDING POINT – FUNDING SOUL MATE
I am coining a new term – “funding soulmate’ – to describe a situation where a business is seeking funding and it finds the perfect, optimal, wonderful, spectacular investor candidate. I can add more superlatives, but you get the idea. This is like the romantic movie where a couple finds one another and birds start singing, rainbows glow on the horizon and world peace seems possible.
?The purpose of placing this concept on display is to challenge any business seeking funding to consider who may be their best funding candidate. More commonly, investments are accepted by anyone willing to write a check. This gets the job done of hitting the funding campaign goal, but, like in the movies, would life be different if they had chosen someone else?
?It is possible that a funding soulmate does not exist for every business seeking funding or that finding a funding soulmate proves too difficult requiring too much time and money to find the perfect match. However, it is possible that searching for a funding soulmate may actually accelerate the funding campaign resulting in funding in less time with less effort.
?To aid in the search for a funding soulmate, it is very helpful to know what one is looking for. Using an “I’ll know them when I see them” makes it difficult for anyone to play the role of a matchmaker. No one can help if they do not know what you are looking for.
?The act of defining who would be a funding soulmate is a great exercise. It quantifies and qualifies the characteristics and capabilities of an investor candidate that can be most helpful to a business, bringing value beyond their checkbook.
?Even if the search for a funding soulmate is unsuccessful, a business may still benefit by raising the bar of who it will consider as an investor candidate.
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SUCCESSFUL FUNDING
Tomorrow, Friday, May 31st (not the usual Tuesday date), the next show for Successful Funding, will feature my guest, Justin Lowell, with Form Factor. We will discuss getting the back office of a small business in order to support a capital campaign.
?You may register to attend this show at:
You can see all of my shows at the time of broadcast or recordings of past shows at my profile on LinkedIn.
?DON COHEN SHOW
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Yesterday, I was a guest on Don Cohen’s show. You may see a recording of the show at:
?I enjoy being a guest, engaging in conversations with other guests, and building communities with Don, using LinkedIn as a communication channel. Every show is its own adventure as we start with a word of the day and then see where the conversation goes from there.
Don is an expert on LinkedIn, particularly on the use of Live streaming to build brands and communities. We will discuss using LinkedIn as a social media platform for building communities that support raising funding.
All shows where I have been a guest can be viewed on Don Cohen's LinkedIn page under Posts.
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OPPORTUNITIES
Community Revitalization Funds
I am teaming with a number of experts in community engagement, organization and funding to develop a model for a community investment fund that can provide capital to a set of local projects that can collectively and interactively generate sufficient economic activity to serve as a foundation for a community’s future growth.
We are seeking seed funding in the form of a short-term loan that will be repaid out of Reg CF crowdfunding campaign. Anyone interested in learning more and discussing a demonstration, please contact:
Karl Dakin at [email protected]
?AeroCine
With avian flu in the news and a growing number of cases of diseases and pathogens transmitted by air, I am advocating the use of cold plasma as a safe and effective way to continuously disinfect the air and surfaces within any kind of building.
I can provide Pathogen Focus disinfection equipment and conduct a small-scale clinical demonstration on-site in the field. Anyone interested in learning more and discussing a demonstration, please contact:
Karl Dakin at [email protected]
?The Ultimate Dinosaur Park
I will be in Texas this week visiting different site candidates for a theme park that will feature full size, highly realistic, animatronic dinosaurs. The theme park would be positioned with advanced robotics, workforce training and economic development.
I am exploring possible relationships with developers, hospitality operators and other attractions.
Anyone interested in learning more and discussing a demonstration, please contact:
Karl Dakin at [email protected]
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Karl Dakin, the Capital Coach
Dakin Capital LLC
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Capital Coach | Stakeholder Investor Campaigns | Design, Stage, and Manage or Support | Reduce Time, Money, and Risk of Raising Funding | Increase Probability of Success! | Opportunity Management
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