Earlier this month, four of the five companies that are in the summer cohort at WMU’s Starting Gate practiced their pitch at the August Pitch Zoo event. These companies were: Fish Ninja Labs, Xcheapskate, RGroup, and FindersKeepers. They were working on talking succinctly about the important parts of their business idea in order to get the Kalamazoo startup community excited …
Wil Schroter, the co-founder and CEO of Fundable.com says that with entrepreneurs trying to sell their ideas to investors, customers and prospective employees, they need to keep things simple in their pitch. To do that, they must also have a simple, painful problem that is being addressed with their business idea. Read Article: Focus on the Simple, Painful Problem by Wil Schroter …
Last night was the June Pitch Zoo event. Although we had a small group, we had a great conversation with the 3 individuals that pitched an “inning”. The pitchers were able to practice their pitch and receive feedback on their pitch (and their business idea if they wanted it). They did a wonderful job — thanks Joe Armstrong (Trakgear), Mark …
There will be a change going forward with Pitch Zoo. The change deals with the feedback from the audience. Pitch Zoo was designed to get feedback on the content and the delivery of the pitch. However, in the first two Pitch Zoos I have seen it be difficult to separate the feedback on the pitch (the content and the delivery) …
I am thinking about making the July Pitch Zoo event be targeted to software developers. The idea is that up to 6 entrepreneurs would do pitches targeted to software developers. The entrepreneurs would have 3 minutes to pitch their business idea in a format to excite software developers. There would not be Q&A. But rather the entrepreneurs would grab a …