Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2014

Practice your “elevator pitch,” and end it by asking for the order. You need to convince them that you have been working on this vision for a long time, and have done the “due diligence” on all the potential knockoffs. In these cases both the entrepreneur and the funding partner are the fools. Don’t be one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The impact of a memorable story was highlighted for me recently as I reviewed the classic book, “ Sell With A Story ,” by Paul Smith, who is an expert trainer on increasing business results through storytelling. Place where it happened. A memorable story needs to start with location specifics to make it real.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Practice your “elevator pitch,” and end it by asking for the order. You need to convince them that you have been working on this vision for a long time, and have done the “due diligence” on all the potential knockoffs. In these cases both the entrepreneur and the funding partner are the fools. Don’t be one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Practice your “elevator pitch,” and end it by asking for the order. You need to convince them that you have been working on this vision for a long time, and have done the “due diligence” on all the potential knockoffs. In these cases both the entrepreneur and the funding partner are the fools. Don’t be one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Yet 2013 is still projected by The Fiscal Times as a difficult IPO opportunity for startups, due to choppy markets, continuing fiscal uncertainty, and the Facebook fiasco. Practice every step, including the elevator pitch to get the first meeting. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Thus, I’m more impressed with entrepreneurs who ask me to review their implementation plan, rather than listen again to their idea. Some dreams sound great, but may not yet be viable or proven with today’s technology. Present at trade shows and network with your ten-slide pitch to build your following.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The impact of a memorable story was highlighted for me recently as I reviewed the classic book, “ Sell With A Story ,” by Paul Smith, who is an expert trainer on increasing business results through storytelling. Place where it happened. A memorable story needs to start with location specifics to make it real.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Even if your product is a technological marvel, I look for balanced strength on the team in finance, marketing and operations. It starts with having a vision and an ability to get the message across in your elevator pitch, in a written business plan and one-on-one with potential investors. Able to communicate on every level.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

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. Maybe your executive summary, but not the full plan.).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The newly formed teams then work for the entire weekend, with the help of some experienced mentors from the industry, who volunteer their time to share advice on product, technology, legal, PR and other issues. For example, you may point out that there is a company with similar technology, but different application/market.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

All of this is in addition to the macro challenges that Israeli startups had to deal with in 2023 even before October 7th, including international investor unease due to the proposed judicial reform (that has since been taken off the table), Ukraine war, global venture slowdown ( US VC investments were down 60% in 2023 ), etc.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Pin down your elevator pitch. Everyone knows what an elevator pitch is, but many underestimate the importance of investing the time and energy into getting it right. You could include customer testimonials on your website or ask customers to leave reviews on relevant sites like Yelp, Yellow Pages, Facebook or TripAdvisor.

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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. Thanks to Christopher J.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2017

FinTech players are increasingly becoming an important part of the fabric of Africa’s financial services ecosystem and the leading banks on the continent are now more urgently seeking to harness technology innovations, collaborate with FinTech start‐ups, and create a platform to scale much faster – to make digital financial services pay.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

You’ve paid your dues. Find partners or investors. Computer/technology consulting. See section 9 below to learn how to find a partner or investors.). Take time to develop and rehearse your “elevator pitch” until you can deliver it comfortably and confidently. You’ve put in the hours.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2018

Whether it’s a thirty-page business plan, a ten-page pitch deck, a five-minute presentation, a one-page executive summary or a twenty-second elevator pitch, your primary goal is to answer the question, “What does your company do?”

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I have a personal diligence rule that when speaking to people at large companies, the facts that they tell you are very useful but their opinions about startup ideas no more valuable than any other smart person’s opinions). We fine tuned the idea throughout, even got letters of intent and partner contracts before we had a powerpoint.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Unfortunately, this is largely due to our institutional structures, but, while we can’t tell you how to topple the institution, we can give some tips on how to play the game, get ahead, and get funded. This is something that, again, may not be controllable due to institutional structures at play. Partner up.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions. Did the partner have a good or bad day, etc. Tons of advice is available on how to pitch , present and market your company. Did the VC’s like your team ? In fact, just the opposite.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Girls in Tech. Elevator Pitches. Ad Serving Technology. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Eventbrite.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Make sure you treat people as partners, not as paid help. Equity partners need to have a hand in guiding the enterprise. Go to tech (or other relevant industry) events. Refine your elevator pitch. The challenge here is to find candidate sweat equity partners who: 1. The gist: 1. You simply need to network.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

A positioning statement is also known as an elevator pitch. Again, it helps you define and differentiate who you are, in the matter of time that it takes to ride in an elevator, like 90 seconds. I thought that would be a great thing to review. In terms of personal branding, you evolve it into a positioning statement.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy?

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