YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2015

A well-designed formal presentation can sell investors on your idea, but before you get to that stage, you’ll likely have occasion to provide an “elevator pitch” — a brief, informal statement that conveys your idea concisely and compellingly. Highlight your product’s key differentiators. Start with a great hook.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Create a sales plan. It will be much easier to differentiate yourself from all of those other generalized consultants if you specialize. 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. Create a Sales Plan.

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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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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. You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. I agree completely. link] Dejan Strbac.

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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. Be able to differentiate your offering from competitors. The best differentiation is a patent or other intellectual property that also provides a barrier to entry.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2023

John Jantsch (10:42): You're gonna get, you're, you're gonna get a sales call from the Wall Street Journal now, I. 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.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 4, 2014

When you’re first considering a new business idea, skip the formal business plan and start with a one-page business plan or a simple elevator pitch to jot down the basic components of your idea. What are the core differentiators of your business that set you apart from the next person trying to build a similar business?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As the CEO of your own company, you will be expected to be the lead sales person, so show the investors that you know how to sell them on your own company. One of the best ways to illustrate that you understand your competitive landscape and your differentiators is to present your competition in a matrix format like this one: 8.

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Up and Running

JULY 12, 2016

That might be with strategy, tactics, milestones, metrics, or projected sales and spending. If your history adds some differentiation about your commitment, your mission, your unique identification with the problem you solve and how you solve it, then that’s a good starting point. See Also: Elevator Pitch Guide.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Johnson & Johnson , for example, makes hundreds of highly differentiated products that serve doctors, nurses and patients. Means of Production Profits determined primarily by availability (uptime) of its differentiated or highly-efficient production capabilities. American Hospital Supply supplies hospitals with whatever they need.

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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. It’s, you’re following up on the e-mail.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

John Jantsch (10:42): Gonna, you, you're gonna get a sales call from the wall street journal. As, as a differentiator, is that Mo moving the definition of what your company is? You know, a lot of companies marketing is assisting with sales and kind of provides M QLS or SQLs to sales leadership. That's okay. Has that been.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

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