You are not alone! Whenever you need advice you have a group of people that can help: your mentor, other young leaders on the social network, or go to the iL2L buzz blog.

Some advice from one of the top Hispanic businesswomen in the United States:

"Seek advice from people who seem knowledgeable and experienced. Seek as much advice as you need from as many people as you need to get full answers. You may learn quite a bit in the process. Do not go into your

own cocoon. You will have learned a lot from discussing your ideas and your needs with many people, even if in the end your proposal was not a good one. Keep trying. Keep tweaking the proposal.

"Never give up. It took me more than three years of dedicated work and more than fifty presentations to potential investors to find the capital to launch our firm 20 years ago. People would say it would not work, or good luck but I am not interested. Along the way, I refined my business plan.

"Persistence and hard work are critical in anything you do in life. There is always another day and another way to convince somebody of the value of your idea. It may take years or a lifetime. It will be time well spent, as long as, along the way, you keep doing your homework and fulfilling your normal day-to-day responsibilities. Working on a dream is no excuse for not doing your daily homework."

from Seek Advice
By: Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg

President and CEO of Strategic Investment Group, Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg is a Venezuelan-born businesswoman and the current President and CEO of Strategic Investment Group, which designs and implements investment strategies for individual and institutional investors. She has been featured in Fortune, SmartMoney, Money Magazine, Investment News, and has appeared on CNN Español, MSNBC and Wall Street Week. She has received praise from her peers as one of the most influential Hispanic businesspeople in the United States.