<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, the pitch]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, the pitch]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/thepitch http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/thepitch <![CDATA[Always have your pitch ready]]>
In the Valley, going out in public without a canned, 30-second spiel for your latest project — the famed "elevator pitch" — is like not wearing underwear. You can do it, but you might embarrass your mom if someone catches you. We went to BarCampBlock, last weekend's nerdathon in Palo Alto, and tested people on the street. Every single one had his pitch at the ready, some delivered more smoothly than others. Did any of them convince you, readers? Tell us in the comments.

–Video by Sarah Meyers

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At last week's Lunch 2.0, Sarah Meyers interviewed Powerset CEO Barney Pell to get the elevator speech on his company, which is doing something incredibly boring innovative! innovative! with natural-language search, whatever that means. I haven't reviewed the clip myself, and Meyers told me there were a few wee audio glitches, but I'm sure it's going to be as fascinating as any Silicon Valley startup pitch.

–Video by Sarah Meyers

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