Opportunities to connect with new clients can arise at any moment and when they do, it's to your advantage to be prepared. Having a well-crafted elevator pitch ready to go can help you make a great ...

LinkedIn Influencer, Steve Blank, published this post originally on LinkedIn. I was catching up over coffee and a muffin with a student I hadn’t seen for years who’s now CEO of his own struggling ...

One hundred seventy years after the birth of the concept, it’s time to evolve it! What’s your elevator pitch? You know, that little 30-second or less message that you use to introduce yourself and ...

What’s an elevator pitch? “It’s the rare ability to capture the interest and imagination of someone you have just met–in about the time it would take both of you to enter an elevator, travel down to ...

Lucie Allaire, founder of the Guiltless To Go healthy food ordering app, explains how she scored a major investment on “Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch.” Do your research — what have the investors you are ...

Every single day I'm on the receiving end of phone calls, emails, and social media messages like this: Someone we both know said I should get in touch with you, because I'm looking for a new job.

Are you now — or about to be — in a career transition? Making a transition after 50 can be surprisingly difficult, particularly if you've been at the same job, or with the same company, for many years ...

DENVER - The assumption of an elevator pitch is that the listener is stuck in the elevator and has to listen to your spiel. In the real world, that doesn't happen, especially when your message has to ...

There are two horrible ways to answer the question, "What do you do?" Horrible answer 1: I'm a gobbledygook-industry-jargon-thing. Horrible answer 2: Let me take 30 minutes to explain to you the exact ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. LinkedIn Influencer, Steve Blank, published this post originally on LinkedIn. I was catching up over coffee and a muffin with a student I ...