Elevator pitch

This condensation step should be taken a step further in the preparation of an elevator pitch. Imagine you are riding in an elevator with a famous venture capitalist (VC). You have one minute to interest this person in your idea before the elevator door opens. What would you say Probably you need to tell the VC the following ... 

Consider a technology opportunity that might lead to a new business. Do a preliminary Web search to see if there are companies doing something similar. Write an elevator pitch for the idea as a prelude to preparing a full TOA. 

To sell the opportunity effectively, the entrepreneur must be able to quickly communicate the value proposition associated with the product, service, or business. In entrepreneurship circles, this is referred to as the elevator pitch. The elevator pitch refers to the ability to pitch the concept to a potential investor in the amount of time it takes to get on an elevator and then get off. The idea behind this is for the entrepreneur to be ready to pitch the concept clearly and concisely at any time. This skill actually fits in well for pharmacists because it is similar to how pharmacists often must counsel patients and make drug therapy recommendations to prescribers. One method of getting additional training in doing this effectively is the book, How to Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds or Less (Frank, 1986). Three key questions that may be helpful to address are... 

After identifying an opportunity, develop a 30-second elevator pitch that clearly communicates the value of the concept. 

You want to prepare these in reverse order, with the elevator pitch last. 

Carbon—Carbon Composites. Above 300°C, even such polymers as phenoHcs and polyimides are not stable as binders for carbon-fiber composites. Carbon—carbon composites are used at elevated temperatures and are prepared by impregnating the fibers with pitch or synthetic resin, foUowed by carbonization, further impregnation, and pyrolysis (91). 

Mechanical Properties and Stability at Elevated Temperature. One increasingly important characteristic of carbon fibers is their excellent performance at elevated temperatures. Strength tested in an inert environment remains constant or slightly increases to temperatures exceeding 2500°C. Amoco s high modulus pitch carbon fiber P-50 maintains approximately 80% of room temperature modulus at temperatures up to 1500°C, then decreases more rapidly to 30% at 2800°C (64). The rapid decrease in modulus is a result of increased atomic mobiHty, increa sing fiber plasticity. 

If the pitch be not well distilled, and a portion of the oleaginous constituents are retained, the fuel, when stowed where the temperature is somewhat elevated, ts apt to ignite spontaneously, in consequence of the evolution and oxidation of those matters. The tendency to this is always greater whan fatty matters or oils have been used with the email coal. Numerous instances of the spontaneous oombustion of artificial fuels, and even of coals, have haen traced to this cause. Such a disaster occurring in the hold of a vessel at sea, is almost certain destruction to the ship. 

In industrial electronics, DLCs can be used in uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), elevators, pallet trucks, etc. [90], They can be combined into large modules with integrated balancing that span outages in all power categories. In power-electronic, they are particularly suitable for backup in operation independent of the line voltage. A particular example is the power supply of wind turbine pitch system which is a market which is increasing very fast. 

The pelletizer system does require periodic visual surveillance by an operator in order to maintain a smooth operation. Hence, if maximum automation is desired, the SCCRS is recommended. The SCCRS must be used when it is desired to recycle soot in feedstock too viscous to be pumped at temperatures below 200°F. In the SCCRS (shown in Figure 3) the water/carbon slurry is first contacted with naphtha so that carbon/naphtha agglomerates are formed and the carbon is removed in this form from the water slurry to be mixed with additional naphtha. The resultant carbon/ naphtha mixture is then combined, at an elevated temperature, with the hot gasification feedstock which may be as viscous as deasphalter pitch. The feedstock/ carbon/naphtha mixture is heated and flashed, and then fed... 

Figure 6 shows the relation between of ethylene tar pitch and the elevating temperature with the range of 1 K/min. It is clear that increases drastically after the temperature exceeds about 593 K. Hence Tq and to in Equation 4 can be taken as 593 K and 300 min, respectively. Based on Equation 6, observed values of In [(1 - /jjJ (df Jdt)] for ethylene tar pitch were plotted against t - to). A typical example of the results is shown in Figure 7, with q 4.17 x 10 K min, which corresponds to the heating rate of about 1 K/min. As expected, a... 

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