Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2021

These are the only people likely to believe in newbies, with only minimal product evidence or business experience. This is confirmation that the right people are always more important than the right product. Friends and family are quick to differentiate between a passionate hobby and a sincere effort to change the world.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2015

If you can sell your idea to companies or potential investors, your product could become the bestseller every inventor dreams of creating. Choose the numbers you’ll include in your elevator speech carefully and put them in context to support your product’s value proposition. Highlight your product’s key differentiators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These are the only people likely to believe in newbies, with only minimal product evidence or business experience. This is confirmation that the right people are always more important than the right product. Friends and family are quick to differentiate between a passionate hobby and a sincere effort to change the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

I’ve written about the “elevator” pitch before. My partner was in product management at Demand Media. It’s hard to imagine that somebody pitching a content business business in LA really could have captured my attention – there are so many of them. How will you differentiate?” What kind of content?

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

But they can otherwise save you much time and effort, and are also safer and more productive than the old-fashioned approach of broadcast emailing or cold-calling every investor you can find in online directories, or responding to the risky spam offers you get for funding on social media. Recruit a team with complementary skills.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Let’s say you have zero traction, an unknown product, and no budget to speak of. Get your elevator pitch right, and spread the message consistently across all media vehicles. Your product should address and be the solution to a problem, so your communications should reflect that with clarity. Deliver the right message.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

It will be much easier to differentiate yourself from all of those other generalized consultants if you specialize. Perceived value is the amount that a customer thinks a service (or product) is worth. Your branding can influence how your product is perceived, as well. But, so do a lot of other folks. Think about it.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. You are building awareness around your product and, presumably, persuading others of its value.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The way that I define PR, basically, is that it’s raising your visibility to your awareness, to your target market, in a unique and differentiating manner. Also, what differentiates that is critical. Absolutely, you need to differentiate yourself, and what you do, and how you do it. However, don’t play it up.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 10, 2012

"I hear pitches that start with 'Well, we're like a cross between Twitter and Facebook that utilizes some aspects of Groupon,'" says Beshore. An elevator pitch should be very concise and very direct.". Now think about your elevator pitch. Was your pitch confusing or nonsensical? That's worthless.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Your Executive Summary is your verbal elevator pitch. Your Solution – Use this to highlight the product or service you are building and why it will address the void you see in the market. Be specific about key differentiating functionality. But, crafting a good Exec Summary is very hard. Understand Your Audience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

To me, this is a logical step function, and confirmation that the right founders are always more important than the right product. Shy introverts may be great technologists, but they won’t be entrepreneurs until they learn to respectfully ask for funding, after nurturing relationships, and practicing their elevator pitch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

By profit, I simply mean offering a product or service to customers for a price that exceeds the total costs associated with the solution, thus providing some basis for recovering sunk costs and generating a return for stakeholders. Be able to differentiate your offering from competitors. Without profit there is no business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2015

These are the only people likely to believe in newbies, with only minimal product evidence or business experience. This is confirmation that the right people are always more important than the right product. Friends and family are quick to differentiate between a passionate hobby and a sincere effort to change the world.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 4, 2014

From potential partnerships to new product and marketing ideas, I feel like we’re swimming in opportunity. No matter who you are or how big you hope to grow your business, figuring out what product to build and what services to offer is a huge challenge. Show your prospective customers a prototype of your product, if you have one.

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Up and Running

JULY 13, 2022

Templates can be used by competitors and are often overutilized, making it harder to differentiate your business. If your business has secured a patent for a product or started the application process, you can highlight this on the site with a US Patent badge and the accompanying information. Highlight your team’s expertise.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As, as a differentiator, is that Mo moving the definition of what your company is? There's so much production value. I mean, I have, for example, every month I have what I call elevator pitch sessions. Now what's been the challenge of getting of changing. Has that been. Andrew Warden (11:57): A challenge?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2023

What's been the challenge of getting, of changing people's thinking that oh no, it's 50 tools and it's, you know, it's a, in fact, I think you even called it an online visibility platform as, as a differentiator. There's so much production value you can turn around to Hulu or YouTube, connected tv, Disney plus, like you name it.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

If you employ these nine tips for taking a good pitch and making it great, you’re going to give the kind of pitch that stands out to investors, too. When possible, open your pitch by telling a real customer story that addresses the problem your product or service solves in the marketplace. Show your darn product!

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Here’s how to present our unique point of differentiation. This is your core marketing message packaged in an elevator pitch kind of way. People rarely walk around saying they need your product or service. Give your staff a simple, yet compelling, way to introduce what your firm does that’s unique.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Market research is important because it will help you figure out whether or not there is demand for the service you’re offering or the product you’re selling. See what people are paying, how they’re rating products/services. Day 8: Write a one page pitch. Go shopping – do both online and offline shopping or ‘research’.

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Up and Running

JULY 12, 2016

They have their founders, their early days, initial launches, changes in strategy, milestones such as new products or new locations, investments, and partners joining and leaving. See Also: Elevator Pitch Guide. Businesses that have been around longer accumulate history as they go. When it’s a good story, you should tell it.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Understanding your “driving force&# is critical to understanding what products to build and who to build them for. All future products are some derivative of the core product. Johnson & Johnson , for example, makes hundreds of highly differentiated products that serve doctors, nurses and patients.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

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