Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. ability to deliver a persuasive elevator pitch and follow it up with a substantive presentation is the difference between a funded entrepreneur and those having coffee complaining that they’re [.] is quite good.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2012

This is a key element of every elevator pitch, with enough specificity and fuel to keep you and everyone around you moving toward the beacon in the fog. Smart entrepreneurs are nimble and flexile, bootstrap to the maximum degree possible, and pivot for emerging opportunities. Expect your fair share of zigzagging to get there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2011

This is a key element of every elevator pitch, with enough specificity and fuel to keep you and everyone around you moving toward the beacon in the fog. Smart entrepreneurs are nimble and flexile, bootstrap to the maximum degree possible, and pivot for emerging opportunities. Expect your fair share of zigzagging to get there.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 9, 2019

link] Can you introduce yourself and give us your elevator pitch? We’re a bootstrapped concept that just so happened to take the entrepreneurial path without instructions, a blueprint or any network. I’m Maxie Taylor, I’m the founder and CEO of Goodieboxx. Last question?—?if We’ve been a really scrappy and aggressive group.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Long Live the Business Plan, The Investor Presentation, The Elevator Pitch, The Size of the Opportunity, Your Competitive Advantage, Current Status and Roadmap from Today, The Strength of Your Team, Summary Financials, Investor Presentations for Larger Startups. Chapter 3: Telling the Story to Your Investors…The Business Plan is Dead.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2015

Image via Flickr by Jupiter Labs Many first-time entrepreneurs find themselves unable to bootstrap their startups, and also unable to find early funding at the venture capital level or even with angel investors. Their only recourse is that first tier of investors, fondly called Friends, Family and Fools.

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Gust

DECEMBER 9, 2012

This is a key element of every elevator pitch, with enough specificity and fuel to keep you and everyone around you moving toward the beacon in the fog. Smart entrepreneurs are nimble and flexile, bootstrap to the maximum degree possible, and pivot for emerging opportunities. Expect your fair share of zigzagging to get there.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The idea of an “elevator pitch” is critical here. This is fine if you are bootstrapping the business, but this needs to be explained clearly in the supporting text. Many executive summaries that I read assumed some degree of knowledge about the industry and in some cases even the business and business concept.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 3, 2017

If it doesn’t require much capital to get started and make money then it might be a better idea to bootstrap it. If it’s a big opportunity that requires millions of dollars to develop the product before you can make money, it could be a fit for venture capital. In either case, the best kind of funding comes from customers, not investors.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2011

11:00am Jason Cohen - A Bootstrapped Geek Sifts Through the Bullshit. 3:30pm Joshua Baer - 5 Secrets to a Killer Elevator Pitch. Saturday you don’t want to miss Jason Cohen’s talk Saturday at 11:00am in Salon AB: A Bootstrapped Geek Sifts Through the Bullshit. 6:00pm-10:00pm Ignite SXSW. Lean Startup SXSW.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

link] Can you introduce yourself and give us your elevator pitch? We’re big on bootstrapping and we’re really good at identifying “Yes.” I’m lucky that I joined a CEO group a year and a half ago, almost two years now; It’s mostly bootstrapped companies there. I’m Vi Nguyen, one of the co-founders and CEO of Homads.

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VC Cafe

JULY 3, 2011

After a while I could tell during the pitch if I was passionate enough just by looking at the person’s reaction – when I wasn’t the engineer was much harder to convince. Bootstrapping. A good example to that is Any.Do , which built a successful app (they have a couple of hundred thousands downloads) – a truly inspiring bootstrap.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 4, 2014

This is true whether you’re a bootstrapped startup that’s funded with credit cards and loans from friends and family, or the next darling of Silicon Valley that’s sitting on a war chest of millions in venture capital funding. Start by documenting your key assumptions about your business. What’s your mission?

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2016

Or, perhaps your story is about how you bootstrapped your business by starting several side businesses and never gave up on your dream, even in the face of adversity. Think of your story as though it’s an elevator pitch; it has to be succinct, memorable, and deliverable in a few sentences or a short conversation.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

Q: Give us the elevator pitch that you gave at SXSW Accelerator? GuruStorms has been completely bootstrapped thus far. Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Edward Cruz from GuruStorms , which was a finalist in the SXSW Accelerator program. Q: How has the company been financed? Are you looking for additional capital?

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Elevator Pitches. Get Satisfaction. Event platforms. Eventbrite. Women Focus. Girls in Tech. Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. and they will instantly look pretty. CoralCDN (academic). Amazon CloudFront. Amazon EC2.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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