(Excerpted from Wikipedia: An elevator pitch is used to quickly and simply define a person, profession, product, service, organization or event and its value proposition.

The name “Elevator Pitch” reflects the idea that it should be possible to deliver the summary in the time span of an elevator ride, or approximately thirty seconds to two minutes. The term itself comes from a scenario of an accidental meeting with someone important in the elevator. If the conversation inside the elevator in those few seconds is interesting and value adding, the conversation will continue after the elevator ride or end in exchange of business cards or a scheduled meeting.

An example is pitching an idea to a venture capitalist or angel investor to receive funding. Venture capitalists often judge the quality of an idea by the quality of its elevator pitch quickly weeding out bad ideas and weak teams. Elevator pitches are also used in many other situations. Personal uses include job interviewing, dating, and summarizing professional services.)

How do you confidently let people know how your skills and abilities add value to them in 90 seconds?

Your strong and specific pitch turns every meeting into an opportunity to connect personally and professionally. And in today’s ‘tweet-time’ culture, it helps to be concise in telling what you do and sharing who you are while showing your personality.

And don’t you deserve to show your best ‘you’ in every interaction?

We say ‘yes’! Perfect the pitch you have or create a new one as we learn, practice and share in this fun and interactive meet-up. We’ll walk through the 3 ways messages are ‘heard’ to polish your pitch:

1. Non-verbal,

2. Symbolic, and

3. Verbal.

Join us and you’ll walk out with:

A polished pitch, and new contacts, ready to share your best ‘you’.

Presenter:

Linda Katz is a Communication and Conflict Management Coach with over 25 years experience coaching and facilitating communication, conflict management, leadership, management, and, creativity. She knows ‘the way you do anything is the way you do everything’ and works with people to polish their ‘everything’ personally, professionally, and financially through communication style and values. She blogs at www.communicationessentials.wordpress.com and can be found on twitter at

**IMPORTANT: PLEASE COMPLETE REGISTRATION AND PAY IN ADVANCE HERE.

 

Due to venue capacity, we can only accept 70 RSVPs. To secure your seat at this event, you must RSVP and pay in advance here: http://bestusesofsocialmedia.eventbrite.com**

 

Brought to you by FIT’s Enterprise Center, The Entrepreneurship Program and Girls in Tech, NYC

Moderator:

Dalia Strum

Teacher at The Fashion Institute of Technology

Speakers include:

Amy Vernon

GM, #SocialMarketing for Internet Media Labs ()

Carrie Mantha 

 

CEO & Co-founder, Indira ()

Ben Relles

Head of Programming Strategy for

David Berkowitz

Vice President of Emerging Media at

All proceeds will be donated to The One Fund to help Boston bombing victims and The American Red Cross to help natural disaster victims.

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Let’s say you work at an early stage startup that took in outside funding. You receive company stock or options as part of your compensation. Along with it came a big document with bunch of legalese that makes your head spin.

You can’t help but wonder, what does it all mean?

Come learn the basics of startup equity. To RSVP, please click here.

You may also have these questions:

– What is the value of my equity?

– When can I turn it into money I can put in my pocket?

– What is a vesting schedule, and why should I care?

– What is dilution, and how does it impact the value of my equity?

If you have these questions, you are not alone. For you, I’ve gathered the best insights from leading venture capitalists such as Fred Wilson, Brad Feld, and Andy Payne. I’ve consulted leading startup lawyers for best practices in negotiating startup equity.

I then organized all the best knowledge into a class format to help answer these questions. By the end of this class, you’ll know the basic essentials of startup equity. My goal is to help you better understand the nuts and bolts of your equity compensation so that you can confidently negotiate for your worth in the workplace.

And to address the legalese, co-teacher and startup lawyer Ekaterina Mouratova will answer your specific legal and tax-related questions.

 

BTW, please RSVP on Eventbrite here: http://startupequityprimer-eorg.eventbrite.com

Thanks!

 

Ekaterina Mouratova is a founder of The Law Firm of Ekaterina Mouratova, PLLC. She focuses her practice on general business and corporate law, securities regulations, intellectual property, and immigration matters. Having comprehensive education both in civil and common law systems and precise understanding of multi-cultural practices allows Ms. Mouratova to successfully represent domestic and international clients.

Passionate about the law and very dedicated to her profession, Ekaterina is a frequent speaker at seminars and author of multiple publications on business law. She is an active member of the New York State Bar Association, American Bar Association, and a pro bono attorney at the New York City Bar Association the Neighborhood Entrepreneur Law Project (an organization that provides mid- and low-income entrepreneurs with free legal services in their business matters).

In 2013 Ms. Mouratova authored and published a book – Business Law for Entrepreneurs. A Legal Guide to Doing Business in the United States. This book is a useful assistant to entrepreneurs, business owners, managers, and other professionals on every stage of their business development, from the start-up to the further functioning of the company. By publishing this book Ekaterina aimed to give access to the vital legal information to a wider audience than any particular client who benefits from a legal consultation. She wrote this book to provide support and guidance to the starting entrepreneurs, as well as to the owners of the established companies.

 

 

AGENDA

6:30 – Networking.

7:10 – 10 minute introduction from the Organizers.

7:20 – 60 Second Pitches (approx. 30-40 people).

8:00 – Guest Speaker – Kelsey Falter, Founder of Markover, Inc. and Founder, CEO & Head of Product Development of Poptip, Poptip.com

8:45 – Acknowledgement of top winning pitches as per the anonymous audience scoring. Prizes awarded.

8:55 – Event wrap-up.

9:00 – Networking!

 

THIS IS A PAID EVENT

$5 Online / $10 At the Door

Payment Options

Meetup: PayPal

Eventbrite: Credit Card

 

60 Second pitches.

Here is the suggested format that we recommend you use:

• Who are you and what is your background? (5-10 seconds)
• What is the problem that your product is solving? Or, begin with a story. (10-20 seconds)
• Explain the product and how it solves the problem. (10-20 seconds)
• Who do you need on your team (a developer, marketing, designer)? (5-10 Seconds)

 

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HOW DOES THIS WORK?

Q: How do we apply to pitch at Pitch Night?

A: You can signup to pitch at the event. No online registration required.

Q: What is the dress code?

A: Feel free to dress as you wish. Typically, there’s everything from very casual to highly professional and everything in-between.

Q: Does everyone that attends pitch?

A: No! Some are curious, some want to watch, some come to pitch, and some decide during the event to pitch!

 

GUEST SPEAKER

Join us May 1st as we welcome our special guest speaker Kelsey Falter to our group to talk with us about how her companies Markover, Inc. and Poptip came about.  Learn about the ins and outs of what it was like at TechStars and the process of getting funding and building her company.

The knowledge and understanding you gain from how other successful tech startups got started, got funded, and experienced growth – and how the product/service was targeted to specific markets – as a whole can be applied immediately in assessing your own startup ideas, plans, and strategies.

KELSEY FALTER

Founder, Markover, Inc.

Founder, CEO & Head of Product Development, Poptip, Poptip.com

Kelsey’s Poptip is a service for brands in which crowd generated data is gathered through the Twitter platform. “Tweet a question using Poptip. Your followers reply directly to your Tweet. Then Poptip aggregates & displays crowd responses.” Instant feedback – whether about a particular product or service or regarding the consumer satisfaction process – is what companies need to quickly adapt and change to meet or mitigate market trends, competitive actions, and customer wants and needs. Crowd generated data is also “useful to share with your team, friends, followers, and more.”

Having received her first domain name at the age of 8 and having taught herself how to code at the age of 9, Kelsey’s been designing and developing websites and starting and participating in building tech startups ever since. With her experience including TechStars, the #1 startup accelerator in the world, and with investors such as Lerer Ventures, Softbank, Techstars, RSE Ventures (Matt Higgins), David Tisch (Box Group), and others – Kelsey’s talk will undoubtedly provide some valuable insights for learning and building your own startups.

 

WHAT IS STARTUP PITCH NIGHT?

Startup Pitch Night provides the platform for early stage startups to practice and improve their startup pitch, gives startups anonymous peer-based feedback, and encourages trial and error without the requirement to apply and be accepted amongst a few to pitch – all within a fun and relaxed atmosphere.

Startup Pitch Night is a vibrant and fun event with high variety, speed, and brevity at its core, coupled with a short talk on the next steps after the refinement of the pitch, from a startup industry leader.

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VENUE LOCATION

Legends New York City (2nd Floor Lounge).  - .  Legends is very close to Penn Station.

Walking Directions: About 6-8 minutes (0.4 mile walk) from Penn Station to Legends. From Penn Station, walk southeast on West 33rd Street towards 5th Avenue.  Legends is located on 33rd Street between 6th and 5th Avenues, and more specifically located closer to 5th Avenue and 33rd Street.

Subway Directions: Exit at 33rd Street. Simply walk south on 33rd Street to Legends New York City, located at .

 

 

 

 

 

 

THIS IS A PAID EVENT

$5 Online / $10 At the Door

Payment Options

Meetup: PayPal

Eventbrite: Credit Card

 

PLEASE READ

The nominal fee of $5 to attend and watch/pitch will help us in planning our event and help enable those that wish to attend the event to do so. If you decide or are unable to attend, your donation will help the group and the fellow startups!

THANK YOU!

We appreciate your cooperation in updating your RSVP to be an accurate representation of whether you will attend or watch the event.