If you would like to help make these ideas happen, I highly recommend asking questions to the people who presented them.
Most ideas will get glossed over because they are not specific enough.
The easiest way to help people get specific enough that I know of is to ask yourself the question “What could this person say that would catch my attention and cause me to want to work with or invest in them if I were in their target demographic?”
If you use that for your compass of what questions to ask them to be more specific about, and they answer well, then much better odds of a match happening, if someone in their target demographic passes through. And if they end up getting more clarity through your questions and realizing that the idea isn’t actually something they want to pursue, then that’s not a bad outcome either—they can stop worrying about it and move onto something better suited to them.
In addition to helping them get clear about things you think you would want as an investor, also questions that clarify what they would be looking for in general, and especially as a next step, for the project would help. Have they answered the question “What/who does this project need?” very concretely and specifically?
If you ask the right questions, you just might be able to make the difference between someone getting their project funded or not. We can make bets about specifics of this assertion with David’s market ;)
Also worth noting that even though I phrased the question about “what cause me to want to work with or invest in them” in the positive, often what needs to be addressed are peoples concerns to show that the project is actually realistic—so asking the hard questions, that could prove that the idea is not good if the person can’t answer well, is actually quite important. Its much better to risk genuinely disqualifying a project than to not give it a chance to be noticed.
If you would like to help make these ideas happen, I highly recommend asking questions to the people who presented them.
Most ideas will get glossed over because they are not specific enough.
The easiest way to help people get specific enough that I know of is to ask yourself the question “What could this person say that would catch my attention and cause me to want to work with or invest in them if I were in their target demographic?”
If you use that for your compass of what questions to ask them to be more specific about, and they answer well, then much better odds of a match happening, if someone in their target demographic passes through. And if they end up getting more clarity through your questions and realizing that the idea isn’t actually something they want to pursue, then that’s not a bad outcome either—they can stop worrying about it and move onto something better suited to them.
In addition to helping them get clear about things you think you would want as an investor, also questions that clarify what they would be looking for in general, and especially as a next step, for the project would help. Have they answered the question “What/who does this project need?” very concretely and specifically?
If you ask the right questions, you just might be able to make the difference between someone getting their project funded or not. We can make bets about specifics of this assertion with David’s market ;)
Also worth noting that even though I phrased the question about “what cause me to want to work with or invest in them” in the positive, often what needs to be addressed are peoples concerns to show that the project is actually realistic—so asking the hard questions, that could prove that the idea is not good if the person can’t answer well, is actually quite important. Its much better to risk genuinely disqualifying a project than to not give it a chance to be noticed.