As your Broker Relations Firm we will work with you to identify viable sources of Capital.

1.Investment Banking firms specialize in many various Sectors. If you find a Venture Capitalist who focuses on enviromental services, renewable fuels, and alternative sciences and your In the wine fermentation (or other) field? Don’t waste your time. Find a different Venture Capitalist firm that specializes in your Sector.

2.Get an introduction to a Venture Capitalist Firm by a well established Coporate Finance Attorney
Why? You will have passed one leg of the Venture Capitalist Filter.

3.Make sure you have had your business incorporated by the same Attorney
Don’t use forms from OfficeMax or your relative who thinks he’s a paralegal.

4.If you are still in school and go to a name brand university, have your Department Head get in touch with the Venture Capital Firm on your behalf.
You (and the head of your department!) had better make sure that you have something impressive to put in front of the Firm in the first place. As in, the school hasn’t seen this kind of innovation in years. Or ever.

5.Have a CEO of a Public Company in the Firm’s portfolio that’s doing well make an introduction for you.

6.Most Venture Capital Firms realizes that many people don’t have these connections. Their advice?
Life is tough. Other people have made these connections. So can you, if you have an idea and company worth investing in.

7.So let’s say you have none of these things. What do you do?
You have a shot.., three paragraphs, and there’s no room for Hore Manure. And you better have tried steps 1-6 first. Send Level3corp@yahoo.com an email. Don’t you dare use the words “patent”, “our partner”, “conservative projections” or “hurry because other firms are interested” or bother with any of those other “cliche “lies.

DON’T send an attachment, don’t waste our time.

DO have brand credentials, and you had better have paid attention to all the steps.

You have three paragraphs to pitch your company, talking specifically about how and what you do, and how it appeals to people. This isn’t just about you!!!! - this is the golden rule of “What’s in it for Them”. Always remenber that