Ning Elevator Pitch

I stumbled across this the other day and well since you guys at Podcast Matters build a lot of your business on Ning I thought it might be of interest ;)

I on the other hand think it is not only a pitch perfect email for investors but a great example of how to define your business.

Enjoy

untill next time keep it mobile

The Bleep Purple Team

Subject: Introducing Ning to Blue Shirt Capital (-ed blue shirt capital is ahem fictional)





Hi Nivi,

Thanks for offering to introduce us to Blue Shirt Capital. I've attached a short presentation about our company, Ning.

Briefly, Ning lets you create your own social network for anything. For free. In 2 minutes. It's as easy as starting a blog. Try it at http://ning.com

Ning unlocks the great ideas from people all over the world who want to use this amazing medium in their lives.


We have over 115,000 user-created networks and our page views are growing 10% per week. We previously raised $44M from Legg Mason and others, including myself.


Before Ning, I started Netscape (acquired by AOL for $4.2B) and Opsware (acquired by HP for $1.6B).


I've admired Blue Shirt's investments from afar. We're starting meetings with investors next week and I would love to show Blue Shirt what we're building at Ning.





Best,

Marc Andreessen