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I think there are two things our investors provided that were unobtainable before they came on board.

1. Access to their networks. If we need something or someone and it or they did not exist inside of our existing network we have been able to use our investors to help us acquire the thing or person we needed much more rapidly than if we had not had them. This led us to being able to execute and or scale much more quickly than we might ordinarily have had.

2. An additional sounding board of experience to help us avoid most of the common pitfalls many start up businesses make when they just don't know any better. Sometime you have to learn from experience, however the more negatives we avoided by taking lessons from others and by evaluating the advice of our advisors the quicker we were able to succeed in our market place.

Our investors provided a lot of other benefits both tangible and intangible but at the end of the day we probably could have done without their money, however I am not sure we could have done without their advice, contacts, and resources.