An effective website does all your selling for you. Your prospects are presented with all the facts, from your company information and history, to testimonials from your satisfied customers. On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy. It follows that, unless your headline sells your product, you have wasted 90 percent of your money. The bank loan officer route is a non-starter.
Most banks use software programs on smaller loans.
To be brutally candid, if you are starting your finance career as a bank loan officer, you don't have the educational credentials or social network to make it as a venture capitalist. If you couldn't call up any one of a half dozen venture capitalists by first name to have lunch or dinner, go sailing or play golf, forget it. Dennis Ray Entrepreneurship is not a state of grace that is bequeathed like knighthood for the battle well fought in business. Entrepreneurs have better things to do than sit at the round table of dissertation and accept the holy grail of academia. It's also a fallacy to exclude small business owners from the ranks of innovators.