04-20-2016, 08:18 AM
I truly have no idea whether to be discouraged, excited or just plain dumbfounded right now.
Just had a talk with a potential investor. When he learned that my startup has a brainwave entrainment component to it (which he didn't know what it was)... he basically flat out told me that he considered it very unlikely that such a technology existed. I offered to show him in practice... but he was having none of it, lol.
When we parted later, he told me that if I could prove to him that this technology worked (which in his case meant plenty of research data, etc.) he would invest in my startup without thinking. He even implied that he would be willing to invest a lot more money than he would under most conditions, which in his case... definitely caught my awareness.
Now, the bizarre part was that I never considered this technology by itself to be so attractive (since there are plenty of people making BWE products), but I guess this is how it is.
I'll have to suspend my years of using BWE products and try to "prove" using data that it works. Critical thinking is not the best asset I have. Fortunately, I know enough sceptics who would love to poke holes in any research I throw at them. Without them, I wouldn't even know how to begin to prove to somebody something that I experientially know as true.
Just had a talk with a potential investor. When he learned that my startup has a brainwave entrainment component to it (which he didn't know what it was)... he basically flat out told me that he considered it very unlikely that such a technology existed. I offered to show him in practice... but he was having none of it, lol.
When we parted later, he told me that if I could prove to him that this technology worked (which in his case meant plenty of research data, etc.) he would invest in my startup without thinking. He even implied that he would be willing to invest a lot more money than he would under most conditions, which in his case... definitely caught my awareness.
Now, the bizarre part was that I never considered this technology by itself to be so attractive (since there are plenty of people making BWE products), but I guess this is how it is.
I'll have to suspend my years of using BWE products and try to "prove" using data that it works. Critical thinking is not the best asset I have. Fortunately, I know enough sceptics who would love to poke holes in any research I throw at them. Without them, I wouldn't even know how to begin to prove to somebody something that I experientially know as true.