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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Gust

JULY 23, 2014

So even if my own mother asked me to meet with you, and you were pitching me a biotech opportunity for a $10 million investment at a $90 million valuation, I might take the meeting, but it wouldn’t be particularly useful for either of us. Now comes the really tricky part: getting me to review all that stuff you just neatly uploaded.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

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. Agora’s selling points are its ability to reduce users’ IT infrastructure cost and enhance revenue for service providers.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2017

Perhaps the most important element that your startup pitch deck needs is a sense of escalation. You need to begin with an overall impression of your vision, followed by your “elevator pitch” – a no nonsense, bare essentials version of what you’re planning to do and why it is so important.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

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. Here are five tips to help build a first web site that will help your business grow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

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. Project revenues, costs and investment expectations. Skip any history lesson and your vision to change the world. Current and past titles don’t convey this information.

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Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Angel Investor Technical Review 120

Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2012

He defines the elevator pitch, video pitch, executive summary, PowerPoint presentation, and business plan as different forms. Do not estimate revenues as a percentage of the market. They will politely accept it and then likely throw it away before reading. Do a bottom’s up analysis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2012

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

APRIL 24, 2011

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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2021

Here is my outline of key deliverables that could convince me that you are a cut above the “average” entrepreneur that approaches me with nothing but a dream and a prayer: Personal video introduction with elevator pitch. Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff. Investors will expect it for due diligence.

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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 ? Your financial projections.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2021

Shy introverts may be great technologists, but they won’t be entrepreneurs until they learn to nurture relationships with friends and family, practice their elevator pitch and respectfully ask for funding. Tie re-payments to revenue growth in the startup. Offer a formal agreement as well as a handshake.

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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. Summit CPA is now a company with over $5M in annual revenue and our team is fully distributed throughout the United States. And I was right. 12- Considered a few factors.

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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. Whether it be in the context of a five-minute elevator pitch or a more formal presentation to professional investors, the projected use of funds should be summarized and prioritized into three “chunks.”

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia ( source ) Michael Eisenberg, co-founder of Aleph, an Israeli venture firm, said in a recent post: “What is the elevator pitch for investing in Israel for the next decade? Wiz is valued at over $10 billion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

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. Target measurements allow you to assess your business progress. A full plan may be no more than 20 pages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Shy introverts may be great technologists, but they won’t be entrepreneurs until they learn to nurture relationships with friends and family, practice their elevator pitch and respectfully ask for funding. Tie re-payments to revenue growth in the startup. Offer a formal agreement as well as a handshake.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

The elevator pitch. By collating key information in a framework, you’ll reduce internal feedback loops, improve collaboration, and empower consistency—which can increase revenue by 33%. . Here are four elements of an effective messaging strategy and our take on how to use them to stand out: 1. Your USP is front and center.

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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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Elevator Pitch Startup Differentiation Distribution 174

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Project both revenues and expense totals for next five years, and past three years. Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Business model.

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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. Whether it be in the context of a five-minute elevator pitch or a more formal presentation to professional investors, the projected use of funds should be summarized and prioritized into three “chunks.”

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Elevator Pitch Salary Angel Investor Viral 285

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2011

This is a key element of every elevator pitch, with enough specificity and fuel to keep you and everyone around you moving toward the beacon in the fog. More importantly, profitability can drive you to find hidden assets, zag to interim revenue sources, and force you to pace yourself in getting to that final destination.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Project both revenues and expense totals for next five years, and past three years. Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Business model.

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Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 235

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Project both revenues and expense totals for next five years, and past three years. Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2014

Here is my outline of some key activities that could convince me you are a cut above the “average” entrepreneur that approaches me with nothing but a dream and a prayer: Personal video introduction with elevator pitch. Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff. Investors will expect it for due diligence.

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Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Due Diligence Angel Investor 270

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2012

This is a key element of every elevator pitch, with enough specificity and fuel to keep you and everyone around you moving toward the beacon in the fog. More importantly, profitability can drive you to find hidden assets, zag to interim revenue sources, and force you to pace yourself in getting to that final destination.

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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. You need to show your summary revenue and expense projections for three to five years. Here are the key components: The problem and your solution.

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Business Plan Elevator Pitch Viral Lead Generation 244

Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2017

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. Like it or not, this will likely affect your revenue and enrollment, especially if you are offering part-time care.

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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. In most cases, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is adequate, with projection formulas for revenue, costs, and cash flow over the next five years. Prepare an investment-grade business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Every entrepreneur and every startup needs to have a clear “elevator pitch,” which identifies a unique strength and value they bring to the table. Focus on the ultimate customer, and find a way to improve satisfaction, grow revenue, or cut costs. Walk away from a bad role or customer.

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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. You need to show your summary revenue and expense projections for three to five years. Here are the key components: The problem and your solution.

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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. Whether it be in the context of a five-minute elevator pitch or a more formal presentation to professional investors, the projected use of funds should be summarized and prioritized into three “chunks.”

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Develop your elevator pitch, practice your handshake, and interact. of all small businesses, generating more than $400 billion annually in revenues. Take every opportunity available to go and network with other people; this will help you practice while also building your network. Things are looking up for the disadvantaged.

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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. Providing your product or service free to customers may sound attractive in marketing materials, but you need revenue sources to survive. Project revenues, costs and investment needs. No more pain of phone shutdown in the middle of a call.”

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Find elevator pitches. If I were visiting your site on a mobile device, I would be more inclined to re-visit later on a desktop device – thus giving you revenue you would otherwise miss on – if the experience was nice on a mobile device. In each page, seek one sentence that sums up the rest of the page.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 19, 2022

And if you’re not sure how to reach your goals, these B2B sales tips that we prepared will help you reach the revenue and success you’re hoping for. Consider using an elevator pitch strategy and determine how you can present your solution within the same amount of time that the strategy calls for. Focus on OKRs.

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Gust

DECEMBER 9, 2012

This is a key element of every elevator pitch, with enough specificity and fuel to keep you and everyone around you moving toward the beacon in the fog. More importantly, profitability can drive you to find hidden assets, zag to interim revenue sources, and force you to pace yourself in getting to that final destination.

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