Your business: Past elevator pitches

Elevator Pitch Archive Elevator Pitch: A Sound Idea Kristyn Heath, 16, pitches for $300,000 to underwrite manufacturing, product development, advertising, and obtain working capital to promote her portable music invention, NoeStringAttached. Elevator Pitch: Power Plant David Spector, founder of Miracle Products, pitches for $2 million to increase advertising for The Amazing Message Plant that blossoms with a personalized greeting on the bud of the plant. Elevator Pitch: Calendar Girl Morgan First, CEO and publisher of "Motion Affair Planner," a city guide fused with a weekly planner, makes a pitch for $45,000 to expand operations and create digital versions for PDA's and cell phones. MSNBC TV Elevator Pitch: Hanging Around Rod Lowenstein, founder and CEO of HangTAGZ, makes an elevator pitch to raise $2 million for his company's new product.  HangTAGZ are interactive CD-ROMs or DVDs that come attached to consumer goods that give information about the product. Elevator Pitch: Scent of money Mother-daughter team Irma Bustos and Vanessa Engel, founders of Whole Fragrance by La Dolce y Vito, make a pitch for $800,000 for their fragrance business. Elevator Pitch: Good Neighbor Policy Oct 29: Adam Berk makes an elevator pitch for his company NeighBORROW.com, which helps people find, borrow and trade DVDs, video games, CDs and books for free with their neighbors. Elevator Pitch: Closet Organizer Tina Krohn makes her pitch for capital to expand manufacturing of StorageMotion, a motorized closet carousel that brings hard-to-reach items right to your hand. Elevator Pitch: Fast fish scaler Terrence Brooks makes an elevator pitch for $75,000 to launch his handheld, battery-operated fish scaler that can clean a fish in about 30 seconds.  Elevator Pitch: Brick House Nikolae Keller is pitching for capital to build manufacturing facilities for Quickbricks, an interlocking building block that is waterproof, fireproof, soundproof and stronger than concrete. Elevator Pitch: Luxury cosmetics Entrepreneur Adam Gerstein makes a presentation for development and marketing capital for "beauty ADDICTS," his luxury line of cosmetic "sets" built around different looks. Elevator Pitch: Sunshade Inventor Emily Beck pitches for money to complete development of Sunshade, a facemask that provides protection from the sun. Elevator Pitch: Motorcycle airbag Todd Brumley makes a pitch for working capital for AireTronics, which has created a personal safety airbag for motorcyclists to wear around their torso. Elevator Pitch: Entertainment Humvee pitch Sept. 10: Watch marketing wiz Khalid Smith pitch for funding to transform a Humvee into an unprecedented, all-in-one mobile entertainment center for advertising and marketing. Elevator Pitch: Blow dry bar Watch entrepreneur Stuart Sklar pitch for the expansion of his NYC blow dry bar, which provides speedy, economical blowouts for women on the go. MSNBC TV Elevator Pitch: Vita Coco Water pitch Aug. 20: Watch entrepreneur Michael Kirban's pitch for money to expand the sales and marketing reach of his 100 percent natural coconut water product. Elevator Pitch: Dumplings Aug. 11: Watch entrepreneur Kenny Lao make a 45-second pitch for cash to expand his dumpling business.

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