The art of pitching at AlwaysOn

Filed in archive Entrepreneurship on August 4, 2006

rachel Rosmarin at Forbes writes about the virtues of pitching at the recent AlwaysOn Summit

This month, 50 small-time tech entrepreneurs didn't even get their full ten minutes to make their case. At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., each would-be Sergey Brin or Larry Page had just six minutes each to pitch a roomful of about 100 venture capital investors and potential business partners.

For some of the startups here, the stakes are pretty high. Make a lasting impression, and it could open the door to an hour-long pitch session with the funder of your dreams. Put the audience to sleep, and, well, it just means one thing: lots more pitching.

Rex Wong, CEO of Internet TV distribution company Dave.TV, pitched so smoothly that he was chosen as one of three CEOs to make a two-minute pitch at an evening reception. His secret sauce? "Pitch all the time--that's why they call us chief evangelist officers."

Too bad I could not attend - I have to do my 2 minutes pitch to Tony before next years event goes on :)

(Via Emergic.org)