Bloody investors - building a business from scratch is megga hard especially when you are developing a lot of new hopes for the underprivelegd kids.
So to help get the business off the ground one gets help from a so called investor
Yeah well, 9 years developing the invention, 9 years of Patent fees to cough up each quarter, 10 months of negotiations and business plan adaption, national marketing surveys... oh yes all single handledy on a wage of £250 per month - no benefits, grants or any other form of income.
And on Dee day when the finally installments of major patent cost needs to be paid for
FF*ing investor bails out with two hours to go before patents freakout
SO JUST FOR THE RECORD....
(particulary aimed at investors or for that matter "Dragons")
Just Stop and Think:
about the small personally funded inventor you are investing in..
You have raised their hopes, their dreams, their self esteem. You have enabled them to think for the first time in their lives that life may at last move out from poverty.
The people - children, oldage persioners, mothers & babies, you and me's, that can benefit from the reduction of accidents because of the invention
Then at a selfish whim pull out TWO HOURS BEFORE A CRITICAL life, future or death situation. just because
you cant be bothered to find 27K while you other projects need 50million
Yeah Well - thanks for FFing up my future and all society's hope's for preventing serious burns.
Pull support out from the small person - and their life is RUINED
Pull the money out of a big guy - and they would probely take you to court.., so you dont do it
The same sort of threat should apply -- so you would think twice before making empty promises