Pitching for management, not money

Modwenna Rees-Mogg, CEO, AngelNews and Roland van Breukelen, Business Development, SAP
Entrepreneurs and small business owners are used to “Pitching for money” from investors while at the same time often looking for a set of complementary skills to help grow the business.
Modwenna Rees-Mogg, CEO of AngelNews has been connecting entrepreneurs and investors for many years and recognised the need that growing businesses also need complementary business skills to take them to the next level and so ‘Pitching for Management, Not Money' was born.
Modwenna will share how the idea came about and the experiences and feedback from small business owners to date.
May 11 2011
15 mins
Pitching for management, not money
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