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With Bowery Capital, Flybridge Capital, Lerer Hippeau Ventures & NEA.
Orrick @ The CBS Building, 51 W 52nd St, 23rd Fl
Oct 31 (Fri) , 2014 @ 09:00 AM
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Have you ever had a discussion with someone about your company and all that resulted from it was a blank stare? Here's your chance to fix that and get first hand feedback from investors who are experts at reviewing pitches. The elevator pitch can make or break you for a follow up engagement with an investor. It's the first impression you make on them so it's important to make it count.

Join us for our elevator pitch roundtables and workshop! If interested, details and information about how to apply are below.

Details:

You will be broken up into groups and placed in a room with 10-15 other entrepreneurs (numbers depend on applicants received) and one investor.
Each company will need to present their elevator pitch in 30 seconds or less. The investor will provide feedback immediately following the pitch.
You will not be able to use or bring anything with you. Just you and your elevator pitch that's stored in your brain.
When everyone in the room has pitched, you will all re-group and each investor will choose their top finalists.
The selected finalists will have 5-10 minutes to make adjustments to their pitches by incorporating the feedback they previously received.
When time is up, the selected finalists will all be brought back into the main room and present in the final pitch off (all companies, even those that were not among the selected finalists, are encouraged to stay and listen).
Here are some best practices as you think about constructing your elevator pitch (or making it even better than it already is).
Space is limited. Please make sure to read the directions below on how to participate.
Investors:
Nicola Korzenko, Associate/Head of Platform, Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Julian Moncada, Analyst, Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Amit Mukherjee, Associate, New Enterprise Associates
Nic Poulos, Principal, Bowery Capital
Victoria Song, Principal, Flybridge Capital Partners

Schedule (subject to change given the number of participants):

9:00 am - 10:40 am: Pitch Event Roundtables

10:40 am - 10:50 am: Brainstorming (selected companies to make adjustments to their pitches)

10:50 am - 11:00 am: Final Pitch Off

11:00 am - 11:30 am: Networking

How to participate:
If interested, please submit a brief description of your company to Lauren Clymer (lclymer@orrick.com) for consideration.
 
 
 
 
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