YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

You’re in discussions with strategic partners and potential beta customers. Think of your first B2B web site as one step beyond your elevator pitch. Call out strategic relationships with business partners, research institutions, or industry groups. Advisors agree your startup is on the right track. Keep it simple.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Whether you are trying to raise money for your business or just want to perfect your business strategy, a solid elevator pitch is an essential tool for achieving your goals. An elevator pitch can be delivered either verbally, ideally in 60 seconds or less, or as a one-page overview of your business. Simple as that.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Refine your elevator pitch. I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2012

An "elevator pitch" is a concise, well-practiced description of your startup and your plan, delivered with conviction and enthusiasm, that your mother should be able to understand in the time it would take to ride up an elevator. A good elevator pitch is not just for an elevator discussion.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2020

Investors want to see a concept, not hear a pitch. An elevator pitch has its value, but it won’t secure interest or funding from sophisticated investors who aren’t out to let you live your dream, but rather put a stake in something they believe is viable for their own gain. The matter of the bill.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Do you donate a percentage of every sale to a worthy cause? 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. Give your target audience a ton of value, before they ever see a sales pitch.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

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. Luckily I didn’t have to – a friend ended up texting me and my business partner, suggesting the name Codal. understand what we were going for.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Also, make sure you practice your elevator pitch. As the founder, you’re the number one sales person of the company and it is not a function you can outsource right away. Show you’re knowledge and passion when speaking to an investor and don’t say you need money to recruit a sales force.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Some success stories weren’t always so successful—even big companies like LEGO experienced declining sales at one time before they went back to their roots and began to refocus on the products their customers really loved. Today, I’m the life of the party, and I’ve even met business partners at these events. What changed?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2017

This description should basically be an elevator pitch for potential partners and business investors to get excited about what you’re offering and your unique location, philosophy, and approach. What are the details of your ownership structure, board of directors, investor list, partners, and so on? Business partnerships.

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Gust

OCTOBER 11, 2011

An “ elevator pitch ” is a concise, well-practiced description of your startup and your plan, delivered with conviction and enthusiasm, that your mother should be able to understand in the time it would take to ride up an elevator. A good elevator pitch is not just for an elevator discussion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Since this document is outward facing, it is important to keep the terminology and tone consistent with that of your customer set, investors, and business partners. This is your elevator pitch hook, which you must be able to deliver in 30 seconds. Marketing, sales, and customer experience. Skip the acronyms and jargon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Exit strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

If you hit the room with the sole purpose of only making a sale, snaffling a customer or touting your product then you’ve kinda missed the point. With that said though – nail your elevator pitch. Hook up with a power partner who will ride shotgun with you to different events. Networking is about people, not end goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Exit strategy.

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Up and Running

JUNE 5, 2015

Ideally, what you’re going for with an email pitch to an investor is setting up a real-time conversation with them, whether it’s a call or a meeting. So think about what you’d say in your elevator pitch, face to face. Email pitch as a sales pitch. Keep it concise and impactful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

His focus is primarily on improving the results for traditional sales professionals, but I’m convinced that the same principles are equally critical for entrepreneurs selling their startup to investors, strategic partners, and customers. These attributes include the following: Specific moment-in-time indication.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 27, 2018

This is your elevator pitch and is the definition of your niche. Ask yourself, “How can I demonstrate value to a potential client in advance of the sale, provide evidence of my fit with the buyer, and do this repeatedly over a long period of time?” Interest — Do I have a problem for which you have an answer?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Exit strategy.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Investors want to hear about your first customers, other investments put into the company (including your own sweat equity), key media placement, signed letters of intent (LOI) to purchase/partner, product and customer milestones , key hires, and so on. Address competition head-on. Share what your assumptions are about your business model.

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Exit strategy.

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Up and Running

MARCH 13, 2019

Whether you are trying to raise money from angel investors or venture capitalists for your business, or just want to perfect your business strategy, a solid elevator pitch is an essential tool for achieving your goals. How to build a winning elevator pitch in 7 steps: 1. Define the problem. Describe your solution.

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Business Plan Blog

APRIL 2, 2013

You are selling your concept to an outsider, possible future investor or a partner , who does not know anything about your business yet. The Executive Summary should be the “ elevator pitch ” of your business plan that gets investors to take a deeper look in your business plan. Define your key sales and marketing strategies.

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Up and Running

JULY 12, 2016

For the traditional business plan to be used as a business summary for potential investors, bank loan managers, partners, or legal requirements, a short summary of company history is usually appropriate. That might be with strategy, tactics, milestones, metrics, or projected sales and spending. See Also: Elevator Pitch Guide.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Create a sales plan. Find partners or investors. For a consulting business, you’ll obviously want to track your sales and profits, but there’s so much more to think about before you can get there. See section 9 below to learn how to find a partner or investors.). Create a Sales Plan. Choose your niche.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. A business partnership is like a marriage and finding a long term partner is a very difficult thing. Finding someone to partner with isn’t easy. 60s elevator pitch).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2011

3:30pm Joshua Baer - 5 Secrets to a Killer Elevator Pitch. There are a limited number of tickets for sale to friends of Ignite who will not have SXSW badges. Saturday at 3:30pm please attend my interactive talk in Salon AB: 5 Secrets to a Killer Elevator Pitch. Lean Startup SXSW. 1:30pm Austin Ventures Party.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

link] Can you introduce yourself and give us your elevator pitch? We then decided to bring in other partners instead of trying to do this ourselves. I think if you’re a sales person and you grew up with sales experiences you’re used to “No”— you’re used to rejection. What challenges have you been facing lately?

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Up and Running

JULY 9, 2015

It sounds simple, but many sales reps fail this first step. Companies may pay top dollar for outstanding sales representatives, but unless the person understands the government marketplace and the culture, success will be slow in coming. Consultative sales meetings are never welcome in the world of government. Keep it short.

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2016

Think of your story as though it’s an elevator pitch; it has to be succinct, memorable, and deliverable in a few sentences or a short conversation. Partner with your local Chamber of Commerce and hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Offer discounts, giveaways, or sales for your grand opening. Opening a brewery? says Katherine.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Now, there may be a point in your business career that you will need to deliver a formal business plan to a bank, investors, or other business partners. But, until that point, I recommend that you start your planning with a simpler process— a pitch —that will help you develop your business strategy. Do you have a single storefront?

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. Even if your idea gets in the wrong hands, they will probably just get the high level “elevator pitch” which isn’t worth much anyways. We fine tuned the idea throughout, even got letters of intent and partner contracts before we had a powerpoint.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 18, 2019

What I do believe is that all of us entrepreneurs need a way of pitching our business clearly and compellingly. To our staff, to potential business partners, to the media, to the interested Dad at the barbecue. That stuff isn’t what I mean when I say ‘brand story’. And yeah, to customers too. Who are we? What do we do? Why do we do it?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

We knew we would solve the problem faster by having access to the Techstars network and accelerator program (5000+ founders, mentors and investors worldwide) Learn how to scale our business and automate sales and csm by exporting our SaaS in a foreign and huge market: the US. Pitching in 2 minutes is an art.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

A sales forecast. Day 8: Write a one page pitch. Consider your One Page Pitch (similar to an elevator pitch), the precursor to your business plan. It’s very similar to an elevator pitch in that it will lay out your business strategy in a format that is easy to digest. Startup costs. An expense budget.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Q: Give us the elevator pitch for you company? And in our first week after hitting the start up directories, we had over 2,600 unique visitors and our first 3 sales. On one hand, the 3 sales semi-validated our hypothesis that other businesses would pay us money to send out handwritten notes.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Did the partner have a good or bad day, etc. Tons of advice is available on how to pitch , present and market your company. Your goal was to preserve your cash while you turned these guesses into facts and searched for a repeatable and scalable sales model. Did the VC’s like your team ? I believe all this advice is wrong.

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