Posts Tagged ‘Elevator Pitch’

One of the entrepreneurial buzzwords I have heard in recent months has been “elevator pitch”. Many networking groups have been pushing elevator pitch events as can be evidenced by the 45 upcoming meetups scheduled for elevator pitches.

35 groups talk about elevator pitches in their description. But as someone who has attended many networking events and heard just about every entrepreneur at New York Entrepreneur Week pitching their idea, I think that the elevator pitch is no longer the key but rather the “pitch to pitch” is.

Lets face it; we no longer have the attention span we did 5 years ago. Twitter has shortened our attention span to 140 characters.

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This Monday, 4/12 at 11:00AM at Scholastic Auditorium, NYEW and YOU will be setting a World Record courtesy of RRE Ventures and the Universal Record Database.

We’re looking for 20 entrepreneurs to pitch live at NYEW for “Most Elevator Pitches Listened to in 5 Minutes.”

You will have only 10 – 15 seconds to pitch RRE Ventures your idea – so make it a good one! The entire feat will be recorded on video and will be added to the URDB database.

Details can be found here.

[NOTE: You must be registered for the event to attend/pitch]

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