However, as you enter Phase III and seek private sector investment, the technology entrepreneur communicates with a different group - with investors whose mission is to create value. Understanding the investor's perspective is often difficult for scientists. Scientists and investors move in different circles - circles that rarely intersect except when the agenda is money. It's money that brings scientists and investors together. Investors wish to create wealth and need a vehicle for doing so.
Scientists seek financial resources to continue nurturing their dream.
In essence, the investor sees money as the end and the scientists sees money as the means. Investors carry the weight of fiduciary responsibility and manage other people's money. Creativity in the realm of finance can result in a prison sentence and heavy fines. Thus, individuals trained in finance are taught many procedures to appropriately track the movement of money and to predict investments which will result in the creation of additional wealth for their clients. Give me procedures.