: About Me

Kimberlee Leonard, Founder and CEO of Bold Branding Solutions, is a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her ten years of sales and marketing experience combined with serving as an investment advisor at top financial institutions in Los Angeles and Hawaii, Ms. Leonard brings practical understanding of your company's voice that is best understood by clients. Additionally, she is a produced and published writer, giving her the out-of-the-box thinking that is required make your content stand apart from the rest. Ms. Leonard has managed portfolios as large as $80 million in assets and has consistently been recruited for her ability to train sales and marketing staff in how to get in the door and make every sales call count. She is a member of the Cambridge Who's Who of Business Executives and a member of the Media Council of the Gerson Lehrman Group.

My passion is ...

creating!

I know too much about ...

useless information... (actually I don't think you can ever know too much).

My parents always told me ...

work and and you will see the payoff.

My childhood ambition ...

to play professional tennis.

My favorite memory ...

teaching my son about sharing with a bag of M&Ms.

Why I write ...

... its a compulsion.

My first job ...

phone receptionist and telesales for Greeters of Hawaii.

My best moment ...

becoming a mom.

My inspiration ...

my son is my muse.

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Understanding Investors There are several ways any business, large or small, can get its initial funding. These include the owner's own capital, family and friends investing or loaning money, bank loans, SBA loans, angel investors or VC money. These are probably the most frequently looked at resources. Getting the needed capital to give your company its "best efforts scenario for success" is largely dependent on your understanding of why an investor is going to give you any amount of money. If it is your own money, then you really don't need to be concerned. But for those of us who don't h...

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