The document provides a guide for crafting an effective elevator pitch, emphasizing the importance of storytelling and knowing your audience. Key elements include being simple, answering relevant questions about traction, product, team, and social proof, and encouraging practice. It also stresses the need for follow-up and maintaining human connections throughout the pitching process.

1. Quick and Dirty Guide to
an Elevator Pitch
Joel Ramirez

2. Disclaimer
I am not responsible for...

3. What is an Elevator Pitch?
Quick way to get someone excited about your
thingy.

4. When do you Pitch?

5. Always be Pitching!

6. Where and to Whom?
Warm Intros
Know your audience
First impressions

7. Hook
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8. High Level View

9. Tell a Story
So What? -> For Instance
Create a meme
Think about your mission, mantra, & taglines

10. Answer the right
questions

11. ● Traction
● Product
● Team
● Social Proof

12. How Are You Different?

13. Be a Human

14. be simple
even too simple - don’t make me think!

15. Practice makes...

16. Leave people wanting
more.

17. What about after?
Shut up and "take notes"
Take what you can get
Follow through

18. What I didn’t talk about
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selling and influence
the rest of start up development
three body problem
meaning of life

19. Just in case you were wondering
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20. Repeat - Be a Human

21. Where did I steal all this from?
The Art of the Start - Guy Kawasaki
Pitching Hacks -Venture Hacks, Nivi & Naval Ravikant
et al