Definitely goes both ways. "Dear Business Person, I have a side project" and I heard you are good at getting customers/funding/partnerships/employees - can we

Definitely goes both ways. "Dear Business Person, I have a side project" and I heard you are good at getting customers/funding/partnerships/employees - can we get coffee for an hour so you can tell me how to achieve these goals so I can raise some funding, or maybe you'd like to be an advisor and we can meet a couple times each week for free. Sometimes a polite no works, but often I am surprised by the degree of entitlement people seems to feel when making this kind of ask, and have to decline multiple times before they get it.