People who run businesses are not offended by being asked for money, because a) they do this routinely and b) this is routinely done to them
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As someone who was (and is) a bit shy, and was (and is?) terrified of the corrupting influence of money, this took a while to internalize.
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You are not the stupidest/most unqualified person who has ever asked the person you are talking to for money. Trust me.
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The fact that you have a mental model of your counterparty is already strong evidence that you're in the top 20% of pitches.
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You are not asking for too much money. You are not asking for too much money. You are not asking for too much money.
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If you haven't operated a business yet, you have no natural intuition for how much businesses spend on relatively low-salience things.
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Businesses spend almost inconceivably vast sums of money on things that you most well-educated natural people don't even know exist.
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Because this is true, businesses (and the humans who constitute them) think through purchases differently than natural people do.
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