Can you communicate the core of your business plan in just a couple of minutes? How about in a single 140-character tweet? Our new Bplans Business Pitch tool can help you develop and refine your core message.

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Elevator pitches made easy

It is increasingly important to be able to distill your startup or business idea down to its essence. Our new pitch tool makes it easy, walking you through each of the elements that potential investors and partners expect to hear. These are simple high-level questions like:

• What problem do your customers need help with?
• What’s your solution?
• What’s your business model?
• What’s your competitive advantage?
• And so on…

Each step includes expert advice and handy tips. You can even dress up your pitch with your company logo or head shot and a link to a video version of your pitch on YouTube. And you can save a copy of your pitch as a PDF to share internally or email to your advisors.

Once your pitch is published on our gallery, you will get ratings and comments from our community of entrepreneurs and small-business owners with ideas on how to improve your pitch.

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I met with Emmett Kilduff, Founder & CEO of London based cmypitch.com [see my pitch]last week. Cmypitch.com is an online community for entrepreneurs and business owners. It has a focus on using video as a means for entrepreneurs to engage with prospective investors, and relevant service providers. This trend towards the use of video was previously written about by Tim Berry in his post: Put your video online and represents a new way for entrepreneurs to engage with prospective investors.

Angels Den launched a similar video pitching offering in the U.K. earlier in the year but maintains a more narrow focus on ‘the pitch’ in contrast to the Cmypitch website which has a broader set of sections including business directories and video clips from well known entrepreneurs.

I am definitely intrigued by these developments – I would have thought that an online video pitch was something for a very tiny minority of sophisticated entrepreneurs. However, it seems the videos can function like an executive summary, acting as an opportunity for prospective investors to get a feel for any proposal in advance of scheduling a meeting.

Unfortunately, as a user I get frustrated that corporate firewalls and troublesome broadband connections can make the user experience for watching video difficult. So these initiatives are not without their challenges. Like all new initiatives they need scale to achieve real success and as the cost to make a video falls and broadband penetration in the U.K. continues to grow so too will their prospective markets. I wish them both well.

Alan Gleeson
Managing Director
Palo Alto Software Ltd
London, UK