My goal over the next few months is to meet AS MANY people as possible and deliver my business plan in hopes to cultivate potential business partners.  

I have not worked with them personally, but from their posts, they appear to be movers and shakers as they say.Also my advice to you would be to join some local rei clubs, and cultivate the ability to find/create great deals investors would want to invest in.Yours truly,Greg Fries

Presumably, you're also cultivating a buyers-list.  

If you don't factor in a fee you are hopefully going to be able to partner on the deal and get your $ on the back end (which is a great way to get into this business with not a lot of money or experience but it takes time and trust to cultivate these type of relationships - hence, again, try to find a Meetup and/or REIA in your group where you can start networking).

Aaron:Preference is for a vendor carry.I suppose a private financier would be second - though we have yet to cultivate a relationship whereby we could pull the full 100% funding;Third - one we've been avoiding - would be to bring in a partner.

I think this forum may cultivate some ideas for you!) 

I'm wondering who as a funder has run into this and what the approach was.I guess it would be advantageous to cultivate a good relationship with a transactional lender then.If a good customer of mine needed a bank statement, I'd give it to him.Are other funders telling you they won't provide a statement?

Last thing: I feel it's important to mention that I've benefited significantly from cultivating professional relationships and friendships relationships with male investors and mentors, especially YOU, J, and also @Brian Burke.

Real estate is not a profession that is done in isolation - it's done through cultivated relationships.The way RE investors are able to grow quickly is because of the equity build up in our rental properties.

In addition to cultivating a network of GCs, I have also worked on developing a group of local investors.