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Will Your Startup Get Venture Capital or IPO in 2013?

Startup Professionals Musings

Your friends and family are really the only answer until you have a significant revenue stream. Practice every step, including the elevator pitch to get the first meeting. Use friends, family, and angels, if possible, to get a product, revenue, and customers first before the VC connection.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Did the partner have a good or bad day, etc. Tons of advice is available on how to pitch , present and market your company. A Progress Graph on the right visually shows how far you’ve come (in whatever units of goodness you’re tracking – revenue, units, users, etc.) Did the VC’s like your team ? Thanks, Steve.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Refine your elevator pitch. You should avoid spending your time here and instead focus on finding a way to generate revenue or to attract investors so that you can afford to hire someone. Here are a few perspectives on it: Building a sweat equity team You simply need to network. Go to user groups.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc. 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. to get hard-earned information.

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How to Take Your Startup Elevator Pitch to the Top

Startup Professionals Musings

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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5 Tips To Build A First Website That Will Grow Your Business

YoungUpstarts

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. Present a professional appearance; Show that you are a real company with solutions to help real businesses solve problems, grow revenue, or reduce cost. Keep it simple.

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Great Startups Can Hook an Investor in 60 Seconds

Startup Professionals Musings

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.