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Don't try to become the "Something of Something" or "Something meets Something". Instead, try to become simply Something. That is all.
by DrJokepu 15y ago
Don't try to become the "Something of Something" or "Something meets Something". Instead, try to become simply Something. That is all.
- jkuria 15y agoIt is a simple and useful way to explain "simply something" to someone who is familiar with "Something [and] Something"
- kirubakaran 15y ago"X of Y" is a great pitch starter for a startup. You give the audience something to peg their thoughts on and go from there. Otherwise, potential for confusion before the "aha!" moment is too large. AirBnB was "We are the eBay of spaces" for a long time. Now that everyone knows AirBnb, everything else is "We are the AirBnB of %s"%('tutoring', 'car rental', 'casual sex', ...). Do you have a better sentence to get the listener to say "oh I see!" and have their eyes dart all over the place as they think of all the potential uses?
- clobber 15y agoI don't know, this might be good way to explain your idea to a non-investor but for VC's I've read the opposite: http://www.businessinsider.com/entrepreneurs-dont-tell-an-investor-your-startup-is-like-company-x-for-y-2010-7 http://www.businessinsider.com/entrepreneurs-dont-tell-an-in... I think instead you can better form your pitch like this: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/03/madlibs-pitch-adeo-ressi-founder-institute/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/03/madlibs-pitch-adeo-ressi-fo...