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6 Steps To Move From Inspiration To Business Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

Start by developing an “elevator pitch,” that you can deliver in thirty seconds to hook a potential customer or investor. Present at trade shows and network with your ten-slide pitch to build your following. Prepare your marketing story for customers and investors.

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How does someone get a meeting with angel investor David S. Rose?

Gust

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. Now comes the really tricky part: getting me to review all that stuff you just neatly uploaded.

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5 Steps To Get You From Your First Idea To A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Create a written plan, with target milestones and metrics. I find the best business plans are not books, but may actually should start as a one-page “elevator pitch” that succinctly encompasses your business goals, problems and solution, opportunity, competition, and business model. A full plan may be no more than 20 pages.

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Struggling With B2B Sales? Follow These 5 Tips for Success

The Startup Magazine

They also play a vital function in sales by helping teams and individuals set the appropriate objective and measure the appropriate metrics. 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.

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Business Startup Checklist

Up and Running

Outline key milestones and metrics. Create an elevator pitch. Refine your elevator pitch for investors. List your products and services and the problems they are solving or needs they are fulfilling. Flesh out your target market details. Create a marketing and sales plan. List your management team. Sales forecast.

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Startup CEO (OnlyOnce- the book!), Part III – Pre-Order Now

OnlyOnce

The book is part of the Startup Revolution series that Brad has been working on for a couple years now, including Do More (Even) Faster , Venture Deals , Startup Communities , and Startup Life (with two more to come, Startup Boards and Startup Metrics). Writing a book is a LOT harder than I expected!

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Marketing Your Portfolio Companies to Other Investors

David Teten

– 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.