I am tiring of early stage and high growth entrepreneurs, who desperately need greater help in attracting their ideal partners (capital, distribution, and so on) for their business growth but refuse to invest upfront in their own success.

They have money, whether it is supporting existing payroll and benefits or their own personal lifestyle expenses (private schools, mortgage, holidays), they just don’t trust their own judgement in parting with it to resolve the increasing ambiguity and complexity within their businesses.

The visible lack of confidence in their own future and poverty mindset, is precisely what is turning off their ideal partners. If they won’t accept and change their own behaviour, why should others underwrite the risks that they are taking in their entrepreneurial businesses?