YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2017

Perhaps the most important element that your startup pitch deck needs is a sense of escalation. You need to begin with an overall impression of your vision, followed by your “elevator pitch” – a no nonsense, bare essentials version of what you’re planning to do and why it is so important.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2023

They are willing to cover marketing, inventory and scaling, but not product development. If you are really looking for research and development money, and you didn’t sell your last startup for $800 million, professional investors are not the place to start. Make your focus and priorities clear.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 27, 2018

by Tom McMakin, author of “ How Clients Buy: A Practical Guide to Business Development for Consulting and Professional Services “. This is your elevator pitch and is the definition of your niche. For professional services business development, reputation is the Holy Grail. Clients aren’t sold services. Stay in touch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2020

They are willing to cover marketing, inventory and scaling, but not product development. If you are really looking for research and development money, and you didn’t sell your last startup for $800 million, professional investors are not the place to start. Make your focus and priorities clear.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 19, 2022

And if you’re not sure how to reach your goals, these B2B sales tips that we prepared will help you reach the revenue and success you’re hoping for. Consider using an elevator pitch strategy and determine how you can present your solution within the same amount of time that the strategy calls for. Focus on OKRs.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Even if they did, what if the assumption – that we had developed a better approach to teaching entrepreneurship – was simply mistaken?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Here are some key strategies that I recommend to every worker today: Develop and highlight your competitive differentiation. Every entrepreneur and every startup needs to have a clear “elevator pitch,” which identifies a unique strength and value they bring to the table. Develop the courage to move on.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Meetup.com is a great resource for those looking to develop their networking skills. Develop your elevator pitch, practice your handshake, and interact. of all small businesses, generating more than $400 billion annually in revenues. Always follow up and don’t let all those new networks go to waste!

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Cash flow issues, the type where a company is bringing in plenty of revenue but is struggling to meet expenses can be really challenging for startups. Sure, you have your elevator pitch and you yourself are the product, but a networking event should be about building relationships and building a network, not the hard sell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2014

They are willing to cover marketing, inventory and scaling, but not product development. If you are really looking for research and development money, and you didn’t sell your last startup for $800 million, professional investors are not the place to start. Make your focus and priorities clear.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2018

They are willing to cover marketing, inventory and scaling, but not product development. If you are really looking for research and development money, and you didn’t sell your last startup for $800 million, professional investors are not the place to start. Make your focus and priorities clear.

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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. More importantly, profitability can drive you to find hidden assets, zag to interim revenue sources, and force you to pace yourself in getting to that final destination.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Ultimately, we went with On Site because we wanted to give a clear indication of what made us different – kind of a micro elevator pitch in our name. Summit CPA is now a company with over $5M in annual revenue and our team is fully distributed throughout the United States. And I was right. 12- Considered a few factors.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2017

As someone who owns eight successful daycares in the Chicago area, I know the strategies and approaches that work when it comes to developing a sound business plan for a daycare center. Like it or not, this will likely affect your revenue and enrollment, especially if you are offering part-time care. What’s your curriculum based on?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2012

Before you start, remember that the goal of the executive summary is to provide a printed version of your best elevator pitch, to provide a positive first impression to the reader. Do you now have real customers, are just starting development. You need to show your summary revenue and expense projections for three to five years.

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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. More importantly, profitability can drive you to find hidden assets, zag to interim revenue sources, and force you to pace yourself in getting to that final destination.

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David Teten

JULY 23, 2019

. – 1-2 sentence elevator pitch. Note the pitch should explain what they actually do preferably using the Mad Libs format : “My company, [NAME], is developing [A DEFINED OFFERING], to help [DEFINED AUDIENCE], [SOLVE A PROBLEM], with [SECRET SAUCE].”. – 1 sentence with most exciting metric from their growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2016

They are willing to cover marketing, inventory and scaling, but not product development. If you are really looking for research and development money, and you didn’t sell your last startup for $800 million, professional investors are not the place to start. Make your focus and priorities clear.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Chapter 2: Defining and Testing the Story…Start Out By Admitting You’re Wrong, A Lean Business Plan Template, Problem, Solution, Key Metrics, Unique Value Proposition and Unfair Advantages, Channels, Customer Segments, Cost Structure and Revenue Streams. Chapter 3: Telling the Story to Your Investors…The Business Plan is Dead.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

You’ve worked hard to develop your ideas and build something worthy of faith and investment. But finding natural ways to pitch your startup may still seem like the most daunting task you’ve faced yet. Your elevator pitch, for all that it can be perfected, can come off as rehearsed, and too straightforward, or too brief.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In thinking about the bigger goal of digital transformation, 46% say they have been able to identify and create new product and revenue streams, and 45% of organizations are now using data and analytics to develop new business models. Think of it like an elevator pitch. For UX analysis: Hotjar.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Before you start, remember that the goal of the executive summary is to provide a printed version of your best elevator pitch, to provide a positive first impression to the reader. Do you now have real customers, are just starting development. You need to show your summary revenue and expense projections for three to five years.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 3, 2017

If your answers starts with, “We have multiple revenue streams…” that’s a bad thing. What I really hear is, “ We have no idea what the most significant revenue driver will be. “ 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.

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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. More importantly, profitability can drive you to find hidden assets, zag to interim revenue sources, and force you to pace yourself in getting to that final destination.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2016

Show how your project aligns within your company’s current business imperatives, but don’t throw around hyperbolic and unrealistic metrics about revenue projections and market share. Your elevator pitch should be one to two minutes long, focusing on topline elements and not an avalanche of executional details and analytics.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2013

A: The best moment for a Pitch is anytime you have someone that wants to know more about your business. Q: When and how should you discuss investor incentives (perks, % of revenue, etc)? determining your business model, your target markets, developing a budget, revenue forecast, how you will make money, hire people, etc.).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2023

Then I want to talk to you about adding a new revenue stream to your business that will completely change how you work with clients. We've developed a system by successfully working with thousands of businesses. Now you can bring it to your agency and benefit from all the tools, templates, systems and processes we've developed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Before you start, remember that the goal of the executive summary is to provide a printed version of your best elevator pitch, to provide a positive first impression to the reader. Do you now have real customers, are just starting development. You need to show your summary revenue and expense projections for three to five years.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2018

Having worked in an Australian app development company that helps small to medium enterprises, I’ve come across many small business owners who have brilliant app ideas but fail to animate them in their pitch. Understand app development, and they have funds and an idea. Understand app development, and they have funds and an idea.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

In particular, I want to bring on a full-time marketing person, and a full-time developer. Refine your elevator pitch. Part of my question would be whether youd be expecting a finite investment from me (and Im not offering myself to you: just using me as an example of a candidate developer). You simply need to network.

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2017

If your goal is to start a business that has an impact on climate change, greentech is a young field with a lot of room for growth—a place where your passion for the cause and your ability to develop a quality product will really show. Ask for any investor’s references—this is someone you’re developing a relationship with.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Find elevator pitches. If I were visiting your site on a mobile device, I would be more inclined to re-visit later on a desktop device – thus giving you revenue you would otherwise miss on – if the experience was nice on a mobile device. In each page, seek one sentence that sums up the rest of the page.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 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: Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person (details will come in a later post). More often than not, a startup/company fails because the product developed is not what the marketplace sought. Short and sweet.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The reason why I say that is again, going back to the previous statements, there is so much going on out there, that you need to be able to position your company using PR as a tool to get you that unfair share of attention that will help you get to the next level, and contribute to your revenue. You need to do it right.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

Q: Give us the elevator pitch that you gave at SXSW Accelerator? The current business model for expert consultants is a brick and mortar industry with revenues of about 1/2 a Billion dollars per year. Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Edward Cruz from GuruStorms , which was a finalist in the SXSW Accelerator program.

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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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