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More interesting yet, how about some of the startup founders on this site make one of these and post them here? For both yourselves and for fun.

• socalsamba 18y ago
  That sounds like a great idea. I wanted to start some discussion around this. So far the experiment has been really successful.
• rms 18y ago
  This is a great idea. How should we organize it? I think we should have a weekly thread that always has five elevator pitches. Maybe we can aim for next Friday? I was also thinking of video elevator pitches. Any reason to stick with text?
  • socalsamba 18y ago
    That could work. Nothing like reading a few pitches to help you put your own business into perspective. Taking a broader look at the landscape and all that.
    • rms 18y ago
      It could also be great exposure for the people who pitch, I suspect we can get at least the first pitch thread techcrunch'd.
      • rms 18y ago
        Was that a downvote saying that it won't be techcrunch'd or that we don't want any more links from techcrunch to here?
• brlewis 18y ago
  I use this elevator pitch formula. Can't find the original source. For [customer-base], [startup] is a [category] that [main-feature]. Unlike [competitors], we [differentiators]. I strongly suggest putting such a pitch in your news.yc profile. Here's mine: For people with many pictures and little time, ourdoings.com is a photo-sharing site that organizes them for you. Unlike conventional photo-sharing sites, we make it easy to create an illustrated story of what you've been doing, and to share your story in illustrated email.
  • colortone 18y ago
    GREAT formula. Here's a short one, riffing on the "hollywood pitch": "[Service] combines [reference point] and [reference point] to achieve [business objective of customer]".