Comments on: What should I send investors? Part 1: Elevator Pitch

By: Matthew Ogston

Matthew Ogston — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:50:31 +0000

Thanks Chris for posting the link to your top 5 must read resources. These will be my weekend reading!

By: What Should I Send a VC Before the Meeting? « Both Sides of the Table

What Should I Send a VC Before the Meeting? « Both Sides of the Table — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:35:32 +0000

[...] topic of what to send in advance is also covered in a Venture Hacks blog posting (see here) where they assert that a well placed introduction is more important than an elevator pitch (by [...]

By: chris mccann

chris mccann — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:15:48 +0000

I just wrote up a blog post detailing 5 must read resources before pitching your company, including this post and others by Dick Costolo, Paul Graham, and more check it out at http://bit.ly/17JuP

By: 5 Must Read Resources before Pitching Your Company « Entrepreneurial Activism

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:01:28 +0000

[...] What should I send investors? Part 1: The Elevator Pitch by Venture Hacks – Venture Hacks is one of my favorite all around startup/entrepreneurial resources and their article about pitching is no less. In this article Venture Hacks gives a real life example of a pitch by serial entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, dissects his pitch, and shows you how to write a pitch just as good as Marc’s. [...]

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Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:35:08 +0000

[...] Send an elevator pitch [...]

By: Looking to raise capital? Send an executive summary. « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:22:11 +0000

[...] agree with Venture Hacks’ advice on what to send an investor when they say: Summary: An introduction captures an investor’s attention, but a great elevator [...]

By: Crafting an effective elevator pitch « Another Startup

Crafting an effective elevator pitch « Another Startup — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:04:15 +0000

[...] don’t pretend to have all the answers to creating an effective elevator pitch, and others have done a much better job covering this topic than me. One site in particular lists a [...]

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:32:23 +0000

The bigger question here may be: how did he secure these meetings and get face time with several very large capital venture funds?

By: Richie

Richie — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:32:43 +0000

My latest pitch, rip it apart everyone :)

The Future of Online Advertising. Using Artificial Intelligence to create an ad exchange that eliminates arbitrage and click fraud while making advertisers & publishers more money. Me = Serial Entrepreneur. Chairman = former CMO of DoubleClick. CTO = actually invented an online ad format.

By: Nivi

Nivi — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:37:43 +0000

Our email discussed product, traction, and team in that order.

For a cold call:

If your traction is interesting, I would start with traction then team.

If your team has a pedigree and your traction is not interesting, I would start with the team and traction in that order.

And try to keep each one down to a sentence.

And cut the size of the elevator pitch above in half.

If your traction isn’t interesting, your team doesn’t have a pedigree, and you’re doing a cold call, your product better be really really really interesting and you better be able to instantly demonstrate the value of what you have built so far. But it is still a stretch.