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 …