Entrepreneur magazine has a recent article by Dwight Peters (a student at Baruch College – Zicklin School of Business in entrepreneurship and founder of BackersHub – a reward fulfillment tool for crowdfunding campaigns) about tips for pitching: 6 Tips for Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch The recommendations are a combination of content and delivery suggestions. His recommendations are (my thoughts are in parenthesis …
EFactor has put together a video featuring six elements that you should include in your pitch. These tips come from last year’s F50 Funded contestants: The 6 things to include in your pitch: The team The problem and your solution Traction / milestones Market size Competition [ comparison ] Financing [ past and current ] Also, EFactor listed 5 pointers …
On August 5th, we held a special Pitch Zoo workshop for the summer cohort of companies in the Starting Gate, a business accelerator for Western Michigan University students. The individuals consisted of founders from six companies currently in the summer cohort of the accelerator. During the 2 hour workshop we discussed different ways to pitch their business — to talk succinctly about …
After taking a break in the summer, Pitch Zoo was back in August. David Szpunar (Revolutionary Designs) practiced his pitch on the product he is working on in the bottling industry. He ran through his pitch, received feedback, and then ran through the pitch a second time to see what improvements he could make on the delivery and content of the …
Colorado State University and the Blue Ocean Challenge has put a new twist on the elevator pitch. They are having participants pitch (2-minutes) on a trolley while driving around Fort Collins. A creative touch to making it “real”. “Innovation, both old and new, comes together in this high-energy, engaging competition as 15 Blue Ocean Enterprises Collegiate Track competitors board Birney …