Everything You’ve Been Taught About Elevator Pitches Is Completely Wrong

The most difficult 30 seconds in startups is only hard because everyone tells entrepreneurs to focus on the wrong thing.

Aaron Dinin, PhD
Entrepreneurship Handbook
5 min readFeb 13, 2023

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I’ll never forget my biggest elevator pitch failure. It literally occurred inside of an actual elevator. How crazy is that?

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I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com