{"id":44121,"date":"2023-10-20T15:33:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/believe-that-investors-need-to-sell-to-you-rebekah-campbells-advice-for-female-entrepreneurs-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:33:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:33:36","slug":"believe-that-investors-need-to-sell-to-you-rebekah-campbells-advice-for-female-entrepreneurs-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/believe-that-investors-need-to-sell-to-you-rebekah-campbells-advice-for-female-entrepreneurs-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Believe that investors need to sell to you: Rebekah Campbell\u2019s advice for female entrepreneurs &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"445\" height=\"352\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/l_heyyou_445.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_heyyou_445\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Confidence is one of the most important parts of any pitch for capital, according to Hey You co-founder Rebekah Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Launch Group founder Fleur Brown, Campbell, <a href=\"growth\/growth-strategy\/merged-posse-rounds-up-5-million-for-hey-you-app\/2015080415238.html\">who recently closed a $5 million series A round for Hey You<\/a>, says she often gets approached by young entrepreneurs looking for advice, and her answer is quite simple: work on your confidence levels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConfidence is not something you just find on the ground, it\u2019s something you really have to work on,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I started fundraising I was in the midst of, \u2018I\u2019ve got this idea, it\u2019s a good idea, please help me I need some money\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then once I really worked on my confidence levels, I go into that meeting believing that this is an amazing business and you\u2019ll be seriously lucky to be part of this business. So you need to sell me as to why I should take investment from you as opposed to somebody else.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you have to be that confident really for people to believe that the business is going to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out more advice from Campbell in the video below:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-N1cYsWvp78?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Do you know more on this story or have a tip of your own? Raising capital or launching a startup?<\/i> <i>. Follow&nbsp;StartupSmart&nbsp;on<\/i> <i>Facebook<\/i><i>,<\/i> <i>Twitter<\/i><i>, and<\/i> <i>LinkedIn<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confidence is one of the most important parts of any pitch for capital, according to Hey You co-founder Rebekah Campbell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}