The speaker at the podium seems momentarily flustered.
Given that he has only 30 seconds to speak, every momentary stumble can potentially be very costly. Luckily, he manages an elegant recovery to finish on a strong note, completing an impressive elevator pitch – the high-tech industry’s term for a brief summary of a new product that can be delivered to a time-pressured potential investor in the space of an elevator ride.
“Having only 30 seconds is pressured,” admits Avi Rosenzweig, head of business development at NovoSpeech Ltd., a four-year-old company producing an automatic speech recognition platform for mobile applications.
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