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Elevator Pitches

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Jan 7: Ray Coleman pitches for $350,000 for marketing, promotion and production of "The Shoe Tool," a metal shoe pick designed to remove grass, mud and small twigs from golf spikes in seconds.

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updated 1:39 p.m. ET Jan. 9, 2007

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.
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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.
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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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