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"I'm starting a startup that helps other startups start up."

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The Elevator Pitch of Frankenstein

"I get you're an entrepreneur, but what do you do?"

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'What kind of internet-start-up camp are you going to this summer?'

'We would like to visit with you about the possibility of expanding our franchise...'

'Venture capital' taking a chance.

"Our goal is to develop killer apps for the new web paradigm, but until that goal is reached we will continue to make the best damned solid waste disposal systems on the planet."

"We'll be too big to fail!"

"It has yet to turn a profit."

"Where do you see yourself in five minutes?"

'The company I ran was non-profit, but that wasn't intentional.'

"I had secured financial backing, I'd set up inventory and cash management systems. I was ready for business, then it hit me... I had no product or service!"

Chasing the one big idea

"When do you suppose it was our business lost its focus?"

"Teddy, did you agree to sell an idea to Google for one point two seven billion?"

"Moreover, profits double if we move in with our parents."

'Digital-Age Mirage.'

Entrepreneurship.

'Well you know what they say 'here today gone tomorrow' or in the case of dotcoms, 'here today gone shortly after lunch.'

"C'mon. Just one more round of funding and I'll build you a horde that'll knock your socks off."

"Since we're a startup, we were hoping you would pay us to work here."

"We've invested too much in this whole thing to just go back to laying around on the rocks all day."

"And all of the kingdom's investors waited for their whimsically unprofitable startups to perform magic in Q3."

"Seven companies in three years."

"I forget, does our company make money yet?"

Well you know what they say - here today gone tomorrow - or in the case of dotcoms, here today gone shortly after lunch.

"Did you know that one-third of all business start-ups were launched by moonlighters working on another company's time?"

'We've financed three more startups for no fathomable reason.'

"Just in case you want to invest, I've got a great idea for a dot.com startup."

How to Start your Own Telecomms. Company

'Ideas.com' desk with a 'come' tray and a 'gone' tray.

'Minority business' taking off

'We've simplified the software.'