Last week sometime a few people thought it might be a good idea to do a weekly roundup of elevator pitches. I wanted to start it off this week.
So, what's your best elevator pitch?
As a bonus question, what makes a good elevator pitch?
Ask YC: Give Us Your Best Elevator Pitch
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#3Elevator pitch for my poetry app (not a startup/business): The Internet is encouraging more poets to write and share, but it is not helping them collaborate and improve and most apps wall up an author's content.
Clarity and conciseness. Hope I didn't violate my answer to the first one ;-)
Of course, almost no one gives a toss about poetry anyway.
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#4We tatoo your ass, you get paid for showcasing corporate logos at volleyball tournaments.
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#5Elevator pitch for my poetry app (not a startup/business): The Internet is encouraging more poets to write and share, but it is not helping them collaborate and improve and most apps wall up an author's content. Clarity and conciseness. Hope I didn't violate my answer to the first one ;-) Of course, almost no one gives a toss about poetry anyway.
Untrue! I give several tosses! I'm working on an integrated touring tool for spoken word poets. It will allow them to rate venues, add tour dates & locations, map their trip, easily find bus or plane tickets between destinations (here's a place where I could work in Wondrbar...), and publish their schedules to various social networking apps. I also want to add a booking mechanism for the people who run poetry venues, so they can connect with poets on tour.
This is a labor of love. Google will not buy me, and I probably won't make any money.
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#6We help you get your work done in half the time with better quality. Our application helps you identify the critical path to getting your work done, and focuses you on the top priority tasks that need to be done now with all the information you need to do them.
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#7Elevator pitch for my poetry app (not a startup/business): The Internet is encouraging more poets to write and share, but it is not helping them collaborate and improve and most apps wall up an author's content. Clarity and conciseness. Hope I didn't violate my answer to the first one ;-) Of course, almost no one gives a toss about poetry anyway.
For some reason the word "collaborate" stopped me cold... it made the whole thing sound like some dilbert.com - generated mission statement.
If I re-read your statement and use "work together" instead of collaborate then it sounded much better to me. For some reason... strange.
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#8We help you get your work done in half the time with better quality. Our application helps you identify the critical path to getting your work done, and focuses you on the top priority tasks that need to be done now with all the information you need to do them.
OK, but what does it actually do? So many things could fit that description that it's hardly a description at all.
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How?
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OK, lemme guess...
A highlighting pen? A flashlight, so you can read under the covers? Eyeglasses? A dictionary?
Maybe you should explain what it is, and how it makes books more useful.