“Summarize the company’s business on the back of a business card.” — Sequoia Capital Summary: An introduction captures an investor’s attention, but a great elevator pitch gets a meeting. The major components of the pitch are traction, product, and team. If you’re building an interesting company, people will offer to introduce you to investors—it makes them looks good. In Hollywood, content is king; in Silicon Valley, dealflow is king. So, what should you send investors? Send an elevator pitch and a deck. We... lire la suite
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Summarize the company’s business on the back of a business card. Sequoia Capital Summary: An introduction captures an investor’s attention, but a great elevator pitch gets a meeting. The major components of the pitch are traction, product, and team. If you’re building an interesting company, people will offer to introduce you to investors—it makes them looks good.
Oslo Elevator Pitch One of the big challenges for me has always been coming up with a short and sweet elevator pitch for our offering, but recently Don Box and Doug Purdy have done just that on their respective blogs. http: www. pluralsight. com/community/blogs/dbox/archive/2008/09/06/oslo.
FP Trading Desk submits: When the makers of Jack Daniels whiskey bought Casa Herradura for $875-million two years ago, the company got a 136-year-old brand and one of Mexico’s finest tequila makers at a time when prices were soaring as an agave plant shortage threatened supply. But Brown-Forman Corp.
Summary: Don’t send long business plans to investors. Don’t ask for NDAs. Don’t share information that must remain confidential. Understand that investors care about traction over everything else. In Parts 1 and 2 of ‘What should I send investors? , we covered the elevator pitch and deck.
PowerPoint plans greatly increase your chance of getting a term sheet, or at least the dignity of a quick no. David Cowan, Bessemer Venture Partners Summary: An introduction and elevator pitch are critical to getting a meeting. You can also provide a “ten-slide” deck that tells a compelling story about your team, product, traction, and plans.
I know plenty of VCs that behave the way I do and plenty that don’t. Brad Feld, on keeping decks to himself Summary: A deck can help you get a meeting but it can also get in the hands of the competition. Whether you send a deck depends on who wants the meeting most.
Rick Segal’s (a VC in Canada) recent post made me smile with recognition: It’s around 2a in Toronto, midnight here in Edmonton. summaries, plans, ideas, and virtual napkins are staring at me with an evil grin. It can feel like it is hard to get a VC’s attention. I’d like to think that it isn’t because we’re bad people, and it isn’t because we’re lazy people.
When we worked together at Business 2. I always thought my then-colleague Erick Schonfeld was a bit of an evil genius. Now an editor at TechCrunch, Schonfeld hasn't proven me wrong. He's taking all of the boring startup spiels — "elevator pitches" — he gets from wantrepreneurs trooping through his office and turning them into content.
You might not like hot pants anymore, but the club scene never gets old. Tonight you can do it your way with red-hot tech demos and free Haamonii Smooth tastings at SF New Tech's 2008 Big Summer Geek Out at Mighty. Festivities begin at 6: p. m. demos at 7: p. m.
Rich Skrenta, a founder of Topix and the Open Directory Project, recently wrote about Spice Girls VC: So one day a few years ago I’m sitting in a VC’s office having a chat. I had a few ideas rattling around in my head but the VC had his eyes on a then-current space which was hot.
We teach our students about the art of the pitch. Most entrepreneurs will have only moments to grab the attention of an investor or a customer, so they need to learn how to explain what they do and how it creates value in a very short few moments. TechCrunch has an on-line site for elevator pitches.
UPDATED 5: p. m. clarification on how to access GoodGuide via text message. At Launch Pad, the elevator pitch session of the Web 2. Summit in San Francisco, half a dozen entrepreneurs pitched their companies Thursday to a panel of venture capitalists and the audience. The theme was “Web meets world” — the ways in which stuff we do online connects to stuff we do in the real world.
Reuters - Stocks in Asia tumbled, with South Korea and Australia nursing falls of almost 5 percent as growing fears of a U. S. recession sparked panic, sending investors to safe-haven government bonds.
If you have a lot of money tied up in stocks, you may want to start taking your extra anti-depressants tonight. Tomorrow’s not looking good for the markets. Stocks tumbled across Asia on Tuesday, and U. S. stock index futures sank, as panic gripped markets that a U. S.
The best elevator pitch for the U.N.
quarterfinals begin today with 2 games; the other two series will start tomorrow. summaries after the jump: Game 1, 1946 v 2006 CARDINALS v. Game 1 summary by Brock 20 For this quarterfinal series, the 16th-seeded 2006 World Series Champions will take on the 1946 World Series Champions, The Greatest Generation.
quarterfinals begin today with 2 games; the other two series will start tomorrow. summaries after the jump: Game 1, 1946 v 2006 CARDINALS v. Game 1 summary by Brock 20 For this quarterfinal series, the 16th-seeded 2006 World Series Champions will take on the 1946 World Series Champions, The Greatest Generation.
After falling to the Gators in Gainesville on Saturday afternoon, the Diamond Dogs came into Sunday's outing needing a win to avoid their first S. E. C. series loss of the season. Facing a Florida squad that had gone 21-6 at home through the previous afternoon, the Red and Black brought to bear the 10-5-1 road record that made the Classic City Canines the lone league team to have posted a double-digit victory total in opponents' home parks.
After falling to the Gators in Gainesville on Saturday afternoon, the Diamond Dogs came into Sunday's outing needing a win to avoid their first S. E. C. series loss of the season. Facing a Florida squad that had gone 21-6 at home through the previous afternoon, the Red and Black brought to bear the 10-5-1 road record that made the Classic City Canines the lone league team to have posted a double-digit victory total in opponents' home parks.
When the Diamond Dogs arrived at Florida's McKethan Stadium on Saturday afternoon, S. E. C. East-leading Georgia was in possession of a four-game edge over second-place Vanderbilt and the Red and Black stood five and a half games in front of the Gators. With a chance to claim their 30th victory of the season and win their seventh conference series of the campaign, the Classic City Canines, winners of 16 of their last 19 outings, gave the pitching assignment to regular Saturday starter Stephen Dodson.