Business & Financial News, Breaking US & International News. What should I send investors? Part 1: Elevator Pitch. Nivi · November 2nd, 2007 “Summarize the company’s business on the back of a business card.” — Sequoia Capital Summary: An introduction captures an investor’s attention, but a great elevator pitch gets a meeting. The major components of the pitch are traction, product, and team. Yo! If you’re building an interesting company, people will offer to introduce you to investors—it makes them look good. So, what should you send investors? Get a first meeting with an elevator pitch. A great elevator pitch is more important than your deck and less important than the “introducer”.
An introduction sells the investor on reading the elevator pitch, which sells the investor on reading the deck, which sells the investor on taking a meeting. An elevator pitch. Send a brief email that the introducer can forward with a thumbs-up. Subject: Introducing Ning to Blue Shirt CapitalHi Nivi,Thanks for offering to introduce us to Blue Shirt Capital. Dissecting the elevator pitch. Let’s dissect this pitch: Pop quiz.
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