Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The best new idea for any entrepreneur should first be based on their own personal interests, skills, and lifestyle, rather than the characteristics of a given market or technology. The next step is to do homework on the business issues that are common to all ideas, such as market size, business models, and marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2012

If the vision doesn’t fuel your passion and match your skills, you won’t like the lifestyle. Creating and documenting scripts, like your elevator pitch, for key interactions help you and your team maintain focus. It takes more than market knowledge and technical skill alone. Establish real business goals and processes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Here are some tips on the right approach and the right points to hit: Match your material to the time allotted. Then match your pace to cover all the material. First, get their attention with your elevator pitch. Skip the generic marketing phrases like more user friendly, massive opportunity, and paradigm shifting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

As a model, think high-quality marketing collateral, with text and graphics in columns and sidebars, but focused on the value of your business, rather than selling your product. Skip the fuzzy marketing terms, such as "easier to use," "lower cost" and "disruptive technology."

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Gust

JULY 23, 2014

So even if my own mother asked me to meet with you, and you were pitching me a biotech opportunity for a $10 million investment at a $90 million valuation, I might take the meeting, but it wouldn’t be particularly useful for either of us. In this case, it’s not a lack of interest, just a lack of time and efficiency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2011

Here are some tips on the right approach and the right points to hit: Match your material to the time allotted. Then match your pace to cover all the material. First, get their attention with your elevator pitch. Skip the generic marketing phrases like more user friendly, massive opportunity, and paradigm shifting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2015

Here are some tips on the right approach and the right points to hit: Match your material to the time allotted. Then match your pace to cover all the material. First, get their attention with your elevator pitch. Skip the generic marketing phrases like more user friendly, massive opportunity, and paradigm shifting.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

This SaaS company, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , enables global organizations to analyze and resolve pay gaps due to gender or race and stay in compliance over time. Syndio has over 60 enterprise customers including Nordstrom, Match Group, Target, Adobe and PagerDuty and already more than 1.3

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

She previously served as the Chief Product Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Smule , where she remains an advisor to the Board of Directors. Marketing is often treated as a bad word in Silicon Valley. But the truth is that many of the best products are created by marketing geniuses. Prerna Gupta is an author and futurist.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

It should be informed by your market, competitor, and user research, and optimized through feedback and testing. Figure out how your product uniquely fits into the market and drive that message home. Even then, treat your marketing messaging as a living document to match your ever-evolving audience. The elevator pitch.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Given the number of funding resources available today, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem getting that initial start-up cash, especially if you focus on a lean business model or MVP route to market. You can finish it up later this week when you dig into the market research. What kind of location matches your strategy?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

What’s the difference between an elevator pitch and an elevator speech? An elevator speech and an elevator pitch are very similar, but a pitch is frequently delivered to investors in a more formal setting and it’s likely that you’ll have a presentation slide deck (also called a pitch deck) to help you out.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

It’s one that’s a good fit for you personally, for your target market, and for your location. Test your business idea and do market research*. Define your target market. What’s your market size? How long will it take to get to market? According to Tim Berry , “If you know your market, move on!”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Do they believe you have a big enough vision and market. Tons of advice is available on how to pitch , present and market your company. The problem isn’t your pitch, it’s your fundamental assumption that you can/should get funded without having real customer and product feedback. Did the VC’s like your team ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The best new idea for any entrepreneur should first be based on their own personal interests, skills, and lifestyle, rather than the characteristics of a given market or technology. The next step is to do homework on the business issues that are common to all ideas, such as market size, business models, and marketing.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

In order to be competitive, a company needs to have just about everything in place, from its product to its team to market traction, before it is ready to seek funding. This means that by far the most effective way to reach a VC is to be introduced by someone who knows both of you and thinks it would be a good match.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Shy introverts may be great technologists, but they won’t be entrepreneurs until they learn to respectfully ask for funding, after nurturing relationships, and practicing their elevator pitch. Use the minimum viable product concept to get revenue early, and allow market and product pivots at minimal cost.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 22, 2010

As I listened to him present the problems of matching lithium-ion battery packs to EV powertrains and direct drive motors, I realized that he had a built a product for a segment of the electric vehicle market that possibly could put his company on the right side of a major industry discontinuity. Filed under: Marketing.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 25, 2021

But having what you think is a good idea is arguably the easiest part of developing and marketing a new product. Consider looking for product development services that match your specific type of product. They will know the market, manufacturing techniques, and more. Create a Great Elevator Pitch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Define the characteristics of the overall industry, market forces, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Executive team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

The best new idea for any entrepreneur should first be based on their own personal interests, skills, and lifestyle, rather than the characteristics of a given market or technology. The next step is to do homework on the business issues that are common to all ideas, such as market size, business models, and marketing.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Embrace social media and digital marketing. No list would be complete without discussing social media and digital marketing. There are a lot of guides that can help you get started , but the key here is to find an area that matches your skillset. Having a great elevator pitch can help articulate that vision to others.

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Up and Running

JULY 23, 2015

From marketing tactics to better networking, try these tips and watch your customer base grow quickly. When it comes to your pitch, get out of your comfort zone. If you’re pitching your business in the same way that you always have, it’s no surprise that you’re having trouble reaching new customers. “Go

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

The book has been described by a few CEOs who read it and commented early for me along the lines of “The Lean Startup movement is great, but this book starts where most of those books end and takes you through the ‘so you have a product that works in-market – now what?’ What About Sales & Marketing?, questions”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Define the characteristics of the overall industry, market forces, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Executive team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The best new idea for any entrepreneur should first be based on their own personal interests, skills, and lifestyle, rather than the characteristics of a given market or technology. The next step is to do homework on the business issues that are common to all ideas, such as market size, business models, and marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Define the characteristics of the overall industry, market forces, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Executive team.

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Define the characteristics of the overall industry, market forces, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Executive team.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 13, 2019

If you’re a creator dabbling in the world of content marketing, or a small business owner in need of content, you’ll want to keep Blended Sense on your radar. link] Can y’all give us the elevator pitch for Blended Sense? Having a digital presence is key if you want your business to stay relevant.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This is where your elevator pitch needs to be embedded. Segment your potential market. One of my pet peeves is seeing an obnoxiously large hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars sized market identified for a company starting up with no further breakdown. Share a sentence or two of your go-to-market strategy.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

and Canadian markets. Were there other cars on the market at that time? This is a good sign—it means they want to see how you think, and see if it matches a.) I’ve seen so many pitches where the entrepreneur doesn’t even show their actual product. Reservations are easily and quickly made online. Serves U.S.,

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 4, 2019

How to Find Success as a Podcast Advertiser or Sponsor written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you’ve been toying with the idea of sponsoring a podcast but aren’t sure where to start, we’re happy to share what we’ve learned about the sponsorship process over the 10 plus years of producing the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Building for Yourself Instead of a Market “Scratching your own itch&# is how many great ideas begin, but it’s not a business strategy. It’s easy to let your idiosyncratic preconceptions prevent you from observing what the larger market will accept. Have an account?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2010

Here are some tips on the right approach and the right points to hit: Match your material to the time allotted. Then match your pace to cover all the material. First, get their attention with your elevator pitch. Skip the generic marketing phrases like more user friendly, massive opportunity, and paradigm shifting.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2012

There are a couple very strong companies and a few others that may have trouble surviving in crowded markets. But, when it came to the pitch, nearly every one of them earned an “A” for the day. Rae and the TechStars staff prepare companies for the Demo Day pitch from Day One at the accelerator. Some of that is OK.

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Up and Running

APRIL 8, 2015

Download Your Free eBook How To Pitch and Get Funded how-to-pitch-and-get-funded.pdf. See Also The 7 Key Components of a Perfect Elevator Pitch. Their free option doesn’t let you store presentations privately, which is a huge concern for any entrepreneur taking a new idea to market. Custom prices are unknown.

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Up and Running

APRIL 8, 2015

See Also The 7 Key Components of a Perfect Elevator Pitch. Their free option doesn’t let you store presentations privately, which is a huge concern for any entrepreneur taking a new idea to market. Whole pitch deck bundles were $75, but were on sale when we looked for $49. Presumably it’s market-priced design work. (If

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