Life's Simple Pleasures
I had to smile.
Okay. I have to admit that I am not immune to their charms. If anything, I love soft leather, and I certainly can appreciate wonderful craftsmanship. The ooohs and aaahs of the woman who realizes what it is is also a great incentive, I will not lie.
Green Your Soul
The earth is no longer young. Its resources are no longer inexhaustible. Temperatures are rising. Entire species are disappearing.
Just yesterday, everyone cavorted in clean, sparkling water, drenched themselves in sunshine, fished an abundant ocean, breathed air that is fresh, harvested a generous, bountiful earth.
Something happened between the space of yesterday and today
Mother earth was taken for granted, and overtaken (over taken) by human greed.
The Sky is the Limit
Of what it would be like to have money, lots of money, the future changed in a whim, through balls swimming in the air.
What would one do with it?
What one can do with it.
Of how it would change everything. Their lives, their past, their present.
And so they purchase their tickets day after day after day, as if through it they are manifesting their faith in the great unknown.
A chance of 1 in 20,872,566,000 – a chance that they are too willing to take. If statistics are to be believed, being struck by lighting (1 in 280,000) would appear to be easier.
Yet they take it. After all, you will not win if you will not roll the dice (or buy the ticket).
If you win, what would you do?
Side By Side
I mean, I used to be interested in anything and everything and would ask my questions, however silly they are. I used to love to listen and would look with awe and wonder at the speaker, a sponge, taking in everything, what is being said, what is not being said, what I felt, what the speaker would want me to feel .
I used to be interested in stories and explanations and people.
But time intervened and with knowledge came… disinterest.
Beholden
Turns out, VCs are the power behind great start-ups like Facebook (as you would have already found out if you watched the movie Social Network).
And through the Entrep Summit, I learned the hoops of how I can get funding from a VC.
But as I said in an earlier article, it is not simple. A lot of money is at stake and venture capitalism is not charity – the venture capitalists are also in the business of making money.
But yes, getting funding from a VC might be well worth your time – it not only eliminates worry but it also lets you know someone believes in you and that someone has your back.
Harvest Time
But the difference between the success and failure of a great idea is execution. Many great ideas do not even get to go off the ground.
And many times the problem is money.
If he can, the idea-owner funds himself, or borrows from family, or a relative, or the bank. Those are the usual, if not easy, avenues.
I attended the recent Entrep Summit of the Manila Jaycees and found out an additional avenue where the idea-owner cum businessman-wannabe can get funding for his ideas.
From venture capitalists.
Enter the mental picture of the shrewd investor: eyebrows lifted, having the singeing look as the hapless businessman explains why he needs money and why he does not have any and why in the world he has not gone far with his ideas.
Through the Entrep Summit, this face changed.