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Marketing Your Portfolio Companies to Other Investors

David Teten

See How VCs structure a syndicate and recruit coinvestors for more on this. – 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].”.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

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. We debated as to whether or not to make the name NYC-specific, as other companies had done. Geographically based names also seemed too vague for the specific work we wanted to do.

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Always be pitching…

Hippoland

I have friends who save $10k a year just to angel invest $1000 in 10 companies a year via syndicates on websites such as AngelList. You no longer need to be super rich or write big checks to be an angel investor. And in fact, many angel investors in the Silicon Valley are not! For them, they see this activity as an investment.

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7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications

mashable.com

Winging the 60-Second Pitch We’ve all heard of the elevator pitch , but last year, when asked to produce it, only two succeeded in delivering one in under a minute, and that’s among the select three dozen startups invited to do in-person interviews. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.