A post by Daniel Tunkelang made me think about revisiting a question that I inevitably get from potential entrepreneurs. Actually, it is usually the first question I get from people that are thinking about pitching their business idea, and it pertains to fear.  The question goes something like, “…but won’t someone steal my business idea if I talk about it [ too soon …

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 …

WMU hosted a pitch competition, PITCH, on April 5th and 6th, with 32 teams competing. Here are the final results: 1st: Fish Ninja, Pitcher: Nathan Norman ($1,200) 2nd: TPimpawster, Pitcher: Erik Chmelar ($700) 3rd: Tech Guardian, Pitcher: John Fry ($400) Most Entertaining, as voted by the crowd: Erik Chmelar, TPimpawster ($200) There were 8 business ideas that made it to the final …

One of the many activities that has been going during the SxSW Interactive Conference this past week has been a pitch event: Student Startup Madness.  A Michigan startup out of Michigan State University won the event, Temporun. The Student Startup Madness event started in the summer of 2012, and culimiated into the finals at SxSW last Saturday, March 9th.  Eight …