You might have noticed we’ve started doing weekly elevator pitches and posting them on TechCrunch Europe. This is a fantastic opportunity to give your startup some publicity – TechCrunch Europe goes out to a high caliber network of entrepreneurs, investors and tech industry professional all over Europe and beyond and gets thousands of hits a week.
Why do we do an elevator pitch? Well the whole idea behind it is that an an entrepreneur you should be able to clearly and consisly communicate what your company does in 30 seconds- any longer and the idea is too complex or you’re in danger of trying to do too many things.
The term is typically used in the context of an entrepreneur pitching an idea to a venture capitalist or angel investor to receive funding. Venture capitalists often judge the quality of an idea and team on the basis of the quality of its elevator pitch, and will ask entrepreneurs for the elevator pitches to quickly weed out bad ideas and weak teams.
Basically if you got in an elevator and realised there was a big wig investor standing next to you with a big wad of cash would you be able to persuade him your idea was shit hot and get him to hand over the cash?
If the asnwer is yes and you wanna have a pop, comment and leave your company name or mail me: hermioneway@newspepper.com
Here’s the competition so far:
and last week’s JobFact.com
Hello again,
Hope you are well. I’d like to do one. Look forward to hearing from you soon.
Cheers
Tej
Hi Tej-
what’s your email address? mines 07709453818
Are you based in London?