Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

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

JUNE 26, 2015

The summary must cover all the key topics in a full business plan, including the following, in this order: Lead with a painful customer problem and how you solve it. This is your elevator pitch and customer value proposition, and is your key to getting an investor to read even the remainder of the summary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

Your friends and family are really the only answer until you have a significant revenue stream. Here are some key action items that will give you some priority: Create an investment-grade business plan. Be ready with a killer executive summary , investor presentation , and financial model. Line up a winning team.

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2018

Your revenue or business model. Show what you’re projecting in revenue (per product) over the next three to five years. Be realistic about who you’re building your product for and break out your market into TAM, SAM, and SOM. Investors tend to care about this slide the most. How will you make money ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2020

Professional investors always look for a proven business model and an existing revenue stream to minimize the risk. Then they look at the people behind the model, the execution status and how they might get their money back. These must remain focused on scaling the business.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2017

You want to review all the different components of your business model. 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 is your business model?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Target measurements allow you to assess your business progress. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

The approach I recommend is to build the investor presentation first, by iterating on the bullets with your team, and then fleshing out the points into a full-blown text-based business plan document. Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Business model. Implicit in this is the go-to-market strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2014

Professional investors always look for a proven business model and an existing revenue stream to minimize the risk. Then they look at the people behind the model, the execution status and how they might get their money back. These must remain focused on scaling the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

An alternative approach, which I prefer, is to build the investor presentation first, by iterating on the bullets with your team, and then fleshing out the points into a full-blown text-based business plan document. Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Business model. Competition and sustainable advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

The approach I recommend is to build the investor presentation first, by iterating on the bullets with your team, and then fleshing out the points into a full-blown text-based business plan document. Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Business model. Implicit in this is the go-to-market strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2012

Before you start, remember that the goal of the executive summary is to provide a printed version of your best elevator pitch, to provide a positive first impression to the reader. Business model. You need to show your summary revenue and expense projections for three to five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

They must amplify your “elevator pitch” to investors, as well as key points from the business plan and the financial model. Prepare an investment-grade business plan. Every entrepreneur needs a professional business plan for their own use, whether they intend to seek investor funding or not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Before you start, remember that the goal of the executive summary is to provide a printed version of your best elevator pitch, to provide a positive first impression to the reader. Business model. You need to show your summary revenue and expense projections for three to five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2023

Professional investors always look for a proven business model and an existing revenue stream to minimize the risk. Then they look at the people behind the model, the execution status and how they might get their money back. These must remain focused on scaling the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This is your elevator pitch hook, which you must be able to deliver in 30 seconds. Provide details on the business model and cash flow. Every business, including non-profits, needs a business model to survive. Project revenues, costs and investment needs.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 3, 2017

If your answers starts with, “We have multiple revenue streams…” that’s a bad thing. What I really hear is, “ We have no idea what the most significant revenue driver will be. “ Is this a big enough market to support a venture funded business?

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Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2012

They must amplify your “elevator pitch” to investors, as well as key points from the business plan and the financial model. Prepare an investment-grade business plan. Every entrepreneur needs a professional business plan for their own use, whether they intend to seek investor funding or not.

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

The approach I recommend is to build the investor presentation first, by iterating on the bullets with your team, and then fleshing out the points into a full-blown text-based business plan document. Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Business model. Implicit in this is the go-to-market strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Before you start, remember that the goal of the executive summary is to provide a printed version of your best elevator pitch, to provide a positive first impression to the reader. Business model. You need to show your summary revenue and expense projections for three to five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2010

To me, this indicates that venture capitalists (VCs) are looking for business, but they are clearly moving away from early-stage (pre-revenue) deals. Get introduced via one of the social networks, or a professional organization, before you approach a VC with a business proposal. Create an investment-grade business plan.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

My objective to each and every one of you is that you will get information that you’ll be able to incorporate into your business model, as soon as this presentation is done. Sometimes when I meet with new clients they say, “Jennefer, we want PR to drive revenue.” A positioning statement is also known as an elevator pitch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

Every entrepreneur needs a good “elevator pitch” which succinctly describes the idea, the customer value proposition, and business profit. Remember you can’t sustain a business or social cause with no revenue or profit. Validate your business model on real customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2018

Professional investors always look for a proven business model and an existing revenue stream to minimize the risk. Then they look at the people behind the model, the execution status and how they might get their money back. These must remain focused on scaling the business.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In thinking about the bigger goal of digital transformation, 46% say they have been able to identify and create new product and revenue streams, and 45% of organizations are now using data and analytics to develop new business models. Think of it like an elevator pitch.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Believe me, it will help you deliver a more compelling and thoughtful pitch. Outline your business model. Your business model tells an investor how your idea will (or does) convert into being economically viable. Your business model should answer the questions: What do you sell? How much do they pay?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2015

Every startup needs a simple elevator pitch, quantifying the value of its journey, that can be communicated in less than a minute to new team members, potential investors and customers. Even non-profits require money to operate, so every startup needs a business model with plans to bring in income.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2016

Professional investors always look for a proven business model and an existing revenue stream to minimize the risk. Then they look at the people behind the model, the execution status and how they might get their money back. These must remain focused on scaling the business.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

Revenue streams. It’s key to have confidence that your startup will eventually find a profitable business model. High-level concept – Create an “elevator pitch” summarizing the purpose and innovativeness of your product. Estimate the earnings that your product/service may generate. Unique value proposition.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2013

Q: I only have 3 minutes to give the first pitch – what should I concentrate on? A: Just focus on the market need, your business model, your team, what you’ve accomplished to date that is relevant to the investment, and your funding needs. Q: Is a pitch similar to a case statement? Did we miss your question?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

Q: Give us the elevator pitch that you gave at SXSW Accelerator? The current business model for expert consultants is a brick and mortar industry with revenues of about 1/2 a Billion dollars per year. MobileRoadie won the category, but being a finalist should help the company’s visibility.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2018

Every successful small business goes through four stages during its entire existence: Existence : expanding from pilot production to broad-scale production. Survival : generating enough cash flow to stay in business. Success : business model works and is stable, but there is still untapped potential. What do they dislike?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

With NVIDIA’s Israel-1 AI supercomputer, a broad range of innovative companies in Israel will create AI that can transform the productivity and business models of enterprises around the world.” Israelis are the most resilient, optimistic, responsible, battle-tested and innovative civilian population in the world.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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