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Some Example Pitches

Posted by admin November - 10 - 2009 - Tuesday

So you’re bubbling over with excitement at finally getting to pitch your idea, but you’re not sure how to do it? Never fear! The internet is full of entrepreneurs that have gotten up on stage to show off their world-changing innovations, and it’s equally full of videos of them doing it!

Here are a few examples of great pitches. Some of them have live demos, which we’re not doing (PowerPoint only), so ignore that part and focus on them getting up in front of an audience and talking about their incredible new ideas.

Yelp:

HelpGuest Elevator Pitch… In An Actual Elevator:

Graph.me, winner of TechCrunch Munich 2009

Foodspotting (very close to how we’re going to do things):

Startup Weekend Pitch: Foodspotting from Women 2.0 on Vimeo.

This presentation by Present.ly is possibly the best set of slide you’ve ever seen:

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The Start-Up CUE team is led by Josh Jeffryes, organizer of the St. Louis Design Meetup, and includes Dave Blankenship and David Phillips, IT Talent from the Bounce Back Network. The Start-Up Connection is being organized by Innovate St. Louis, ITenterprises of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, IT Entrepreneur Network, Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise, BioGenerator, the St. Louis RCGA, and Bounce Back St. Louis.