That first elevator pitch is meant to lead to a meeting and hook investors.
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This is why there is so much emphasis on having a personal elevator pitch and a professional elevator pitch.
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An elevator pitch is so named because it is delivered in the time span of a hypothetical elevator trip.
However, one school has just taken a different approach with an innovative new contest -- the so-called Elevator Pitch.
In other words, the first several bullet points or paragraph of your online profiles could be considered your elevator pitch.
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Here are some things to keep in mind when formulating, practicing (because you should practice it) and delivering your elevator pitch.
After gathering all that information together they create a slide-show, a write-up, a stock template and quick elevator pitch of the company.
Balancing strategic and tactical items can be challenging, the same way coming up with an elevator pitch your grandma can understand is a challenge.
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The evangelists for Tech City certainly deliver an impressive elevator pitch.
What is your elevator pitch of this strategy for our nation?
The bottom line is that an elevator pitch is extremely important and worth taking the time to develop so it is easily understood and projects exactly what it is that you do.
But the competition taught Kapler and Parthasarathi one of the most important lessons in their startup careers: how to effectively communicate their vision and strategy with different audiences in various forms, ranging from business plan to elevator pitch.
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For many contestants, it was their first time to make an elevator-pitch video from scratch.
Contestants were required to submit a one-page venture summary, a business model canvas, and a three-minute elevator-pitch.
If ever there were an elevator to pitch in, it was that one at the New York Public Library on that day.
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An elevator-pitch definition of service oriented architecture would be: Loosely-coupled services with well-defined interfaces that provide business functionality and can be shared or reused across and beyond the enterprise.
It is a popular concept -- earlier this year, students at Columbia Business School took part in a pitch competition in which the pleas for investment were actually delivered in an elevator, although these were filmed rather than having all the judges crammed inside as well.
Before he arrived in Austin, O'Neal and Tout joined up for a "Pitch Shaq" contest in which they invited registered SXSW attendees to submit 15-second elevator pitches about their startups.
The Demon system's success in controlling roll, one of the three axes of movement of a body in free space, is also leading engineers to wonder if the other two axes, pitch and yaw, might similarly be transferred to fluidic systems from, respectively, the elevator flaps on the tailplane and the rudder on the tail.
At SXSW, you never know who might share your elevator or literally bump into you as you round a corner, so look your best, have your pitch down, and always carry your product or something to demo.
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