Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2012

The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. The biggest complaint I hear from investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. If you start by pitching your extended life story, that’s the wrong point. Start with the problem and your solution.

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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. I see too many executive summaries that are simply heavy-duty customer pitches, or lightweight visions of the future.

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Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Angel Investor Technical Review 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2015

The average length of a funding pitch to Angel investors is ten minutes. The biggest complaint I hear from investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. If you start by pitching your extended life story, that’s the wrong point. Start with the problem and your solution.

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Technical Review Elevator Pitch Angel Investor Matching 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2011

The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. The biggest complaint I hear from investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. If you start by pitching your extended life story, that’s the wrong point. Start with the problem and your solution.

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Technical Review Elevator Pitch Angel Investor Matching 237

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Smart entrepreneurs develop quick elevator pitches for their ideas, good product and business stories, and are eager for the opportunity to communicate and learn from feedback. As an investor, I’m not attracted to startups where the founder sends in a marketing person to do the talking. Marty Zwilling.

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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 Pretty much in that order.

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Technical Review Seattle Elevator Pitch Equity 62

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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Angel Investor Elevator Pitch Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review 153

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The reality is, the vast majority of real startups are driven by people who know their market from experience and who are ready to bet the farm on it! ” Students and newbies need market research, while the vast majority of real startups are driven by people who know their market from experience and are ready to bet the farm on it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Smart entrepreneurs develop quick elevator pitches for their ideas, good product and business stories, and are eager for the opportunity to communicate and learn from feedback. As an investor, I’m not attracted to startups where the founder sends in a marketing person to do the talking. Marty Zwilling.

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Elevator Pitch Startup Matching Entrepreneur 195

OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Startup CEO (OnlyOnce – the book!), My book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business , is now available for pre-order on Amazon in multiple formats ( Print , Kindle ), which is an exciting milestone in this project! Part III – Pre-Order Now. questions”. questions”. Onboarding: The First 90 Days.

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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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Angel Groups Elevator Pitch Software Review Deal Flow 159

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Of course, the average beginning amount per startup is low, and usually in the form of a convertible loan, rather than an equity investment. To me, this is a logical step function, and confirmation that the right founders are always more important than the right product. Be prepared with a formal agreement and a thank you.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

A great elevator speech will spark interest in your business and hopefully lead to a deeper conversation. Elevator speeches are a great opportunity for entrepreneurs. What’s the difference between an elevator pitch and an elevator speech? An elevator speech is always delivered verbally—it is a speech, after all.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 22, 2010

I was catching up over coffee and a muffin with a student I hadn’t seen for years who’s now CEO of his own struggling startup. Our product is really complicated. Our product is really complicated I need to tell you all about it so you get it.”. The goal is not to pack in every technical detail about the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

As a member of the local Angel group selection committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Every startup needs both a business plan and an investor presentation, completed before you formally approach any investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Smart entrepreneurs develop quick elevator pitches for their ideas, good product and business stories, and are eager for the opportunity to communicate and learn from feedback. As an investor, I’m not attracted to startups where the founder sends in a marketing person to do the talking. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Matching Business Model 155

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

As a member of the local Angel group selection committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Every startup needs both a business plan and an investor presentation, completed before you formally approach any investors.

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Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 234

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

As a member of the local angel group Selection Committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Every startup needs both a business plan and an investor presentation, completed before you formally approach any investors.

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Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 235

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I’ve seen hundreds of startups pitch to angel investors and venture capitalists, and most of them—at best— are just okay. There have been plenty of pretty good ones that hit all the key components of a pitch , but only a handful of those took it a step further and were truly great. Show your darn product!

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Sweat Equity Churn Rate Elevator Pitch Forecast 122

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Smart entrepreneurs develop quick elevator pitches for their ideas, good product and business stories, and are eager for the opportunity to communicate and learn from feedback. As an investor, I’m not attracted to startups where the founder sends in a marketing person to do the talking. Marty Zwilling.

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Elevator Pitch Matching Entrepreneur Business Model 120

Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

As a member of the local Angel group selection committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short – maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Every startup needs both a business plan and an investor presentation, completed before you formally approach any investors.

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Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 146

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2010

The average length of a funding pitch to investors is ten minutes. I was recently a judge at a local event where the time limit for each startup was two minutes. Yet a big complaint I hear from investors is that startup founders often waste their time and forget to get to the point. Start with the problem and your solution.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 25, 2011

bre.ad , a new startup launching whose founder has perfected the art of the conference pitch. The guy leans in and says, "Hey Charlie, sorry to interrupt, my name is Alan, I'm with bre.ad, I'm going to follow up with an e-mail to you about our startup. Just wanted you to match the name to a face." No pitch, nothing more.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. The goal of their startup in this stage becomes “getting funded.”

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

What kind of location matches your strategy? If you’re working from home and not seeing clients, you may find your startup costs are limited to marketing, stationery and legal. When you create a worksheet to record your startup costs, keep expenses and assets separate. Startup costs. How will your customers get there?

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Up and Running

APRIL 8, 2015

See Also The 7 Key Components of a Perfect Elevator Pitch. Their process is that you place an order online, uploading any ideas you have, and selecting a few various options, such as rush order, if you’re matching existing branding (you can upload documents), and what level of designer you want (junior, intermediate, senior).

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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. A tool that allows for the versatility of a one page pitch or a pitch deck, and has broader applications for your business. . Pitchenvy.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2012

As a startup, “if you cannot nail a presentation, you’re done.” 13 TechStars companies went on stage to pitch their products to investors, and every single pitch passed with flying colors. Getting the pitch right is one of the most important parts of a startup's life cycle. Dropping from the ceiling?

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

He’s the founder of four companies, most recently WPEngine , and blogs weekly about startups and geekery. I’ve reviewed hundreds of startup pitches and I can tell you that everyone makes the same types of errors. Because every one can be matched or surpassed by any competitor, today or tomorrow, in very little time.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

I’ve always been intrigued by the success of the ‘Startup Nation.’ That of a British startup which naively arrived for three months in Tel Aviv and hasn’t looked back since. The Israeli startup community is: “Pashut Magniv” (simply spectacular). By Daniel Abrahams *. In this post, I want to share my story.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. It’s most comfortable to hang out with people like ourselves, but those are exactly the folks you probably don’t want to co-found a startup with. In Silicon Valley, rock climbing’s a current hot spot for startup folks.

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unbounce.com

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Does your landing page headline match the message on your ads? Do you use bullet points to describe the benefits of your product/service? Does your page message have the clarity of a 30-second elevator pitch? Does your landing page explain how your product/service is unique (USP)? It’s finicky. test this).

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