This is a great post. It covers the "you just have to ask" approach made famous by Feynman (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1196928" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1196928</a>) and elaborated upon by Mystery (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game:_Penetrating_the_Secret_Society_of_Pickup_Artists" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game:_Penetrating_the_Secre...</a>), which was initially developed for picking up women but is also devastatingly effective in raising investment and entrepreneurship in general.<p>But the post goes waay beyond that. His sympathy for the investor who turned him down and his reasons were moving. Read this one, then go back and read the "The Last Post" on HN yesterday (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2514270" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2514270</a>). Then, go grab a cup of tea/coffee and stare out the window for 10 minutes and think.<p>That's what I'm going to do now.