personal-pitch 
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 11, 2023
Savvy entrepreneurs start testing their ideas on potential customers even before the concept is fully cooked. I still hear too many excuses for not working early on the elevator pitch, like wanting to fly under the radar, don’t have the team together yet, or can’t afford an agency. Craft and hone your elevator pitch early.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 14, 2018
I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. I’ll explain why in this post. What should not be in your deck?
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 13, 2018
The short answer is that you should have multiple versions of your “pitch deck” (a short, visual presentation in Keynote, PPT or similar and shared as a PDF) and each occasion has a specific goal. Remember that the goal of an email to a VC or an introduction from a trusted mutual connection is simply to get you the meeting.
TechCrunch LA
JULY 29, 2019
When Stackin initially pitched itself as part of Techstars Los Angeles accelerator program two years ago, the company was a video platform for financial advice targeting a millennial audience too savvy for traditional advisory services. It turns out that consumers didn’t want another video platform.
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 30, 2021
Pilot-authors tell their stories in the first person, and all of us readers slow down to think while reading of these events, wondering “what if” or whether this could happen to me. Email readers, continue here…] We who invest look for patterns from previous experience. We ask ourselves “what if?”. Investor pattern match.
InfoChachkie
MAY 27, 2013
Last week, Divshot turned a simple April Fool''s Day joke into a marketing coup, generating nearly 6,000 Tweets and over a thousand Beta customers. The team''s ability to drive significant customer interest without spending a dime on marketing was one of the reasons Jim Andelman and I invested in the company. Don’t Over Sell It.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 8, 2020
Savvy entrepreneurs start testing their ideas on potential customers even before the concept is fully cooked. I still hear too many excuses for not working early on the elevator pitch, like wanting to fly under the radar, don’t have the team together yet, or can’t afford an agency. Craft and hone your elevator pitch early.
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