Archive for January, 2007

We Don’t Want To Miss A Thing

posted January 21, 2007 by David Speers  |  Comments Off

If you know of a great start up in Philadelphia or you want to share your expertise with your fellow Phillypreneurs, please do us a favor and send us an e-mail about it (info@phillypreneurs.com). If we use your info we’ll gladly give you a link and if we post your article you’ll get a generous bio promoting yourself and your company.

Phillypreneurs Elevator Pitch

Want to promote your Philadelphia based start up?
Send your 60 second elevator pitch to info@phillypreneurs.com and we’ll feature it on Phillypreneurs.com

Here’s what we need:
A link to a 60 second embeddable video clip (Youtube, Vimeo,Viddler) of your Phast Pitch with a shout out to Phillypreneurs.com at the beginning.
Please send us a link in an e-mail with the correct spelling of your name, your company and a link to your website (if you have one yet).

Don’t know what to say?
Just answer these six questions and you’ll be fine:

1. What is your product or service?
Briefly describe what it is you sell. Do not go into excruciating detail.

2. Who is your market?
Briefly discuss who you are selling the product or service to. What industry is it? How large of a market do they represent?

3. What is your revenue model?
More simply, how do you expect to make money?

4. Who is behind the company?
“Bet on the jockey, not the horse” is a familiar saying among Investors. Tell them a little about you and your team’s background and achievements. If you have a strong advisory board, tell them who they are and what they have accomplished.

5. Who is your competition?
Don’t have any? Think again. Briefly discuss who they are and what they have accomplished. Successful competition is an advantage-they are proof your business model and/or concept work.

6. What is your competitive advantage?
Simply being in an industry with successful competitors is not enough. You need to effectively communicate how your company is different and why you have an advantage over the competition. A better distribution channel? Key partners? Proprietary technology?

*Elevator Pitch check list courtesy of Businessknowhow.com

david Dave Speers is an online marketing consultant and blogger that has worked with a wide variety of Philadelphia Start-Ups . Dave spends most his time annoying really smart people at Indy Hall co-working collaborative.
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What Everybody Ought to Know About Philly

posted January 3, 2007 by David Speers  |  Comments (0)

Philadelphia has long been the home of innovation in America. While Philadelphia is known for being the first capital of the United States, it is the home of many firsts in the US. Here is a list of national firsts that have happened right here in Philly:

david Dave Speers is an online marketing consultant and blogger that has worked with a wide variety of Philadelphia Start-Ups . Dave spends most his time annoying really smart people at Indy Hall co-working collaborative.
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Famous Phillypreneurs

posted January 2, 2007 by David Speers  |  Comments (1)

david Dave Speers is an online marketing consultant and blogger that has worked with a wide variety of Philadelphia Start-Ups . Dave spends most his time annoying really smart people at Indy Hall co-working collaborative.
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Ben Franklin: America’s Entrepreneur

posted January 1, 2007 by David Speers  |  Comments (0)

“While many of America’s founding fathers were business owners, one in particular stood out as one of history’s greatest entrepreneurs: Benjamin Franklin. His many useful inventions include bifocals, an odometer, the lightning rod, swim fins, watertight bulkheads for ships, and the wood stove.” courtesy of Ben Franklin 300

3 Franklin Facts:

  1. Franklin didn’t patent any of his inventions or scientific discoveries, since he believed that everyone should be able to freely benefit from scientific progress. In this way, he was sort of an eighteenth century open-source advocate.
  2. Franklin organized weekly meetings of a small group of other tradesmen and artisans, called a Junto. At their weekly meetings they asked how they “may be serviceable to mankind? Junto is still meeting to this day. (link to Junto)
  3. Franklin noticed that almost a third of his fellow settlers in Pennsylvania were German-speakers, and promptly launched the Philadelphische Zeitung – the first newspaper printed in German in the colonies.

david Dave Speers is an online marketing consultant and blogger that has worked with a wide variety of Philadelphia Start-Ups . Dave spends most his time annoying really smart people at Indy Hall co-working collaborative.
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