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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Refine your elevator pitch. Here are a few perspectives on it: Building a sweat equity team You simply need to network. Go to user groups. Go to tech (or other relevant industry) events. Eventually you'll catch the ear, the vision, of someone who would like to jump on board, and has something you need in return.

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4 Strategies for Managing Your Online Brand

ReadWriteStart

While the specific tactics you take for each of these will be certainly different depending on the tools you choose to use, I think everyone needs to take steps around the following four strategies: Refine your personal elevator pitch Monitor what's being said about you online Proactively do content marketing Aggregate and curate to reinforce.

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LinkedIn: It’s Not the Only Game In Town

YoungUpstarts

Former Facebook employees Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever founded Quora in 2009. Create short, elevator pitch-style videos to tell potential partners or customers about your business. The most popular hashtags make it to Twitter’s Trending list which increases visibility even more. What’s a Quora?

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ADPrentice 2010

Feld Thoughts

Sameer, Mark, and I were judges for the three ADPrentice contents, which included creating an elevator pitch, creating a marketing plan, and running a startup simulation Dungeons and Dragons style (yes – we used six-sided dice.).

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Reply Richard Jordan , on November 5, 2009 at 3:36 pm Said: Steve, best article yet. I mean, there’s only so much VC money going round and we don’t want EVERYONE out there pitching well and with good ideas. Reply links for 2009-11-05 « Blarney Fellow , on November 5, 2009 at 4:16 pm Said: [.]

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“Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch

Steve Blank

Brendan McManus said: “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch [link] #startup #advice [.] Reply jordancooper , on November 12, 2009 at 8:08 am Said: Steve, sorry to do this in your comment forum, but I don’t see an email or contact. Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch [.]

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Q&A Wednesday :: GuruStorms

Austin Startup

Q: Give us the elevator pitch that you gave at SXSW Accelerator? BountyStorms launched in early 2009. We had a wonderful opportunity to launch GuruStorms as an AlphaPitch company at DEMOFall 2009. Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Edward Cruz from GuruStorms , which was a finalist in the SXSW Accelerator program.