We found that while people may be brilliant at retweeting, to get investment rolling you have to reach out personally and pre-align investors before hitting each stage.
Those changes, he said, had aligned investors behind the priorities of governments, with 70 companies stepping forward with $3bn in investment to support African governments.
We're currently looking for an aligned investor to help drive the next phase of growth over the coming years.
They build followings and hope that some day the stars will align and investors will plunk wads of cash in front of them so they can open their own places.
Many stars are in fact now aligned for investors.
As these stars aligned, foreign investors who often drive rallies here piled back in.
Together, greater pay disclosure combined with the majority voting standard, will provide safeguards to ensure compensation practices are aligned with investors' best interests.
Mr Lo well understood that unless the interests of local and central government are aligned, foreign investors can get caught in the crossfire: Chongqing's previous mayor and party secretary had been at loggerheads.
"We wanted to be completely aligned with investors," O'Farrell says.
The question is whether there is an alternative model that better aligns founders, investors, and employees for growth.
FundersClub's goal of offering up the highest potential startups is aligned with investors, because both only get paid if the companies succeed.
