Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Additionally, you need to be able to communicate the essence that story and value to investors in a couple of sentences – your elevator pitch. After a good elevator pitch or initial presentation, investors will ask for your formal business plan and financial projections. Lack of clear objectives/goals. Use them and win.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

You should also prepare an elevator pitch, which is a 5 minute verbal summary of your business idea and the plan. It is called an elevator pitch because you should be able to pitch to someone over an elevator ride. Teaser documents are usually used to initiate formal communication with investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2011

Additionally, you need to be able to communicate the essence that story and value to investors in a couple of sentences – your elevator pitch. After a good elevator pitch or initial presentation, investors will ask for your formal business plan and financial projections. Lack of clear objectives/goals. Use them and win.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2021

People cite sources like this Inc.com article “ 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need a Business Plan ,” or my own blog discussion on this subject, “ Situations Where A Business Plan Does Not Add Value.” Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2020

I still hear too many excuses for not working early on the elevator pitch, like wanting to fly under the radar, don’t have the team together yet, or can’t afford an agency. Highlight the problem and your concerns in industry blogs, speaking in public forums, and making yourself visible on social media and networking opportunities.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Think of your first B2B web site as one step beyond your elevator pitch. Do not start a blog unless you can reliably post multiple times a month. Now is the time to get your web site up. Here are five tips to help build a first web site that will help your business grow. Profiles of founders and advisors add credibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2010

Additionally, you need to be able to communicate the essence that story and value to investors in a couple of sentences – your elevator pitch. After a good elevator pitch or initial presentation, investors will ask for your formal business plan and financial projections. Lack of clear objectives/goals. Use them and win.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 25, 2018

My friend Adam writes a great blog about his entrepreneurial journey, and a post earlier this week was once again spot on. In the post, “This is where I encourage you to pitch your elevator pitch” , Adam talks about the fallacy that he sees in the concept of an elevator pitch.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And while communication is a good impulse, there are better ways to get your message to clients than by jamming your pages with blog posts, marketing descriptions, and visuals. Kristy Campbell, COO of Rev1 Ventures, describes your first website as a “step beyond your elevator pitch.” Step Back From Social.

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Up and Running

MARCH 30, 2015

I can’t resist adding that LivePlan also includes some features designed to help with the real business pitch, the one I refer to as the pitch, the presentation for investors. It has graphics and summaries you can export as visuals for your slide deck for that first kind of pitch. The elevator speech or elevator pitch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2021

What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Work on your elevator pitch. This is a concise, well-practiced description of your idea or your startup, delivered with conviction to start a relationship in the time it takes to ride up an elevator.

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The Next Web

MARCH 17, 2018

One of the most critical tasks startups face, is creating a killer elevator pitch — a short, verbal description of who they are, what they do, and how they are going to succeed as a business. The elevator pitch process has led to parodies on sites like the Startup Elevator Pitch Generator and “it’s like x for y” pitch roulette sites.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2011

They call it the elevator speech, or elevator pitch, and it’s a good exercise. I was there last Thursday to hear these two pitches , two of the best from 16 one-minute pitches at the University of Oregon’s New Venture Championship. His full biography is available on his blog. About the Author.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Start with the elevator pitch and get the key points down, but the theoretical 60 seconds of the classic elevator pitch is too much. The post 10 Tips for Finding Venture Funding appeared first on Bplans Blog. Have an extremely good tag line and instant summary. But don’t count on 60 seconds.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2018

Originally published on the Shep Blog As an entrepreneur, particularly at the beginning of your journey, you will constantly have to come up with and refine your message in a multitude of different formats. Litr.ly: ”Imagine a world where even the most amateur blog writer could write compelling, grammatically correct prose.”

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2012

He defines the elevator pitch, video pitch, executive summary, PowerPoint presentation, and business plan as different forms. For more on this, you could find a lot of the same kind of thinking in my form follows function post on my Planning Startups Stories blog, part of a series on business planning fundamentals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

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. Build your own personal brand image through blogging, industry forums, and networking.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Refine your elevator pitch. Here are a few perspectives on it: Building a sweat equity team You simply need to network. Go to user groups. Go to tech (or other relevant industry) events. Eventually you'll catch the ear, the vision, of someone who would like to jump on board, and has something you need in return.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2014

Highlight the problem and your concerns in industry blogs, speaking in public forums, and making yourself visible on social media and networking opportunities. Craft and hone your elevator pitch early. Start actively blogging on your own site, as well as on industry forums. Make your business cards stand out in the crowd.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

Pitch the hell out of it, to friends and family, angels, journalists, random people you meet on the streets, and just about anyone who will lend you an ear. Because as you pitch it, you’ll start to see patterns in people’s responses to the idea. Do their eyes light up after the first sentence of your elevator pitch?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Every entrepreneur and every startup needs to have a clear “elevator pitch,” which identifies a unique strength and value they bring to the table. Use blogging, outside publication, and speaking or mentoring opportunities to establish credibility and stand out above peers.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 25, 2017

Homework I don't think that this founder has looked at my blog or my background. If they had read either of the above articles or the 10 other on my blog, then they would have sent me something else. This should be your elevator pitch. Of course, this needs to be "elevator size" - 3 to 4 sentences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2012

I’m talking about doing some real networking to test your elevator pitch, and get to know some potential investors before you ask them for money. Start writing a blog, speaking at local groups, and conversing at networking meetings about the need you see in the marketplace, before you pitch a solution. Give it to them.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

You’ll need a few paragraphs that you can email — often called the elevator pitch — meaning you should be able to give it during a brief elevator ride up to your investor’s office. In fact, keep the material clear and concise instead of trying to make it visually appealing. An executive summary.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

With that background, here are 30 tips to help you make the most of Gust: Subscribe to the Gust Blog , and go back and read the past posts. At the very least, answer ALL the profile questions, include your company’s logo, create a two-minute elevator pitch video and upload your presentation deck.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 15, 2018

This is the perfect time to impress people with your elevator pitch , which is what you use to show potential clients how you can help their business and the reasons they should hire you. Choose some of the same places to hang out and try to engage them in conversation. Keep your ear to the ground.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

I still plan to publish on this blog occasionally, as well as more frequently on my blogs at Forbes , Huffington Post , and others. Blogging is a learning process as well as a sharing one. I learn something new every day in blogging. Every entrepreneur should work first on his elevator pitch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2016

I still hear too many excuses for not working early on the elevator pitch, like wanting to fly under the radar, don’t have the team together yet, or can’t afford an agency. Highlight the problem and your concerns in industry blogs, speaking in public forums, and making yourself visible on social media and networking opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2011

I’m talking about doing some real networking to test your elevator pitch, and get to know some potential investors before you ask them for money. Start writing a blog, speaking at local groups, and conversing at networking meetings about the need you see in the marketplace, before you pitch a solution. Give it to them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Work on your elevator pitch. This is a concise, well-practiced description of your idea or your startup, delivered with conviction to start a relationship in the time it takes to ride up an elevator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2010

I’m talking about doing some real networking to test your elevator pitch, and get to know some potential investors before you ask them for money. Start writing a blog, speaking at local groups, and conversing at networking meetings about the need you see in the marketplace, before you pitch a solution. Give it to them.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Think of this as your elevator pitch but instead of a short pitch to give someone in an elevator, it’s a short pitch to stop them from clicking on the next link. Check out the rest of our blog for more interesting articles. Make those things part of your marketing. It’s All About Offering Value.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Each team gave each professor a three-minute elevator pitch for their idea, and we let them know if it was good enough for the class. Start their blog/wiki/journal for the class. That night we posted the list of the students who were accepted into the class. is their business worth pursuing (market size).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Stay up on the VC blogs and be familiar with other players in your space. It may sound obvious, but I can’t tell you how many pitch meetings I’ve sat through in which the entrepreneur hadn’t done their homework on me or my areas of interest/expertise. Perfect your elevator pitch and get it out there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2013

What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Work on your elevator pitch. This is a concise, well-practiced description of your idea or your startup, delivered with conviction to start a relationship in the time it takes to ride up an elevator.

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Gust

JULY 22, 2012

I’m talking about doing some real networking to test your elevator pitch, and get to know some potential investors before you ask them for money. Start writing a blog, speaking at local groups, and conversing at networking meetings about the need you see in the marketplace, before you pitch a solution. Give it to them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2018

People cite sources like this recent Inc.com article “ 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need a Business Plan ,” or my own blog discussion on this subject, “ Situations Where A Business Plan Does Not Add Value.” Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff.

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