12 Signs That You Have Lost Control of The Investor Discussion

You are talking about funding terms and conditions before you have framed the investor’s objectives
The investor continues to ask questions about your credibility long after your first conversation.
The investor feigns interest with anecdotes of his or her own past experiences and seeks to point you to a “dead-end” road.
The investor routinely allows (or makes arranged) disruptions to your meeting, by their assistant, colleagues or to take “urgent” phone calls.
The investor cuts short your meeting or arranges for a subordinate to step in at short notice.
You are pushed into a position by the investor of constantly defending your investment thesis, your IP, or your technology rather than discussing how you might work as partners in success.
You are doing more than a third of the talking.
You are treated as a subordinate in the investor meeting (body language and talk).
The investor refuses to engage in a conversation about his or her desired outcomes as it pertains to your investment needs. (“It is too early.”)
The responses that you receive from the investor are curt and to the point but with little or no explanation for his or her position.
You leave accepting “we’ll call get to you” or words to that effect from the investor that include no definitive next step (call, meeting, exchange of further information).
Your follow up calls and other attempts at contact are returned with a cursory platitude or not at all.