Calling all Fast Pitchers
Early stage entrepreneurs, listen up! If you would like to take advantage of our captive (and growing) audience (which includes investors), and you’d like to get some feedback on your pitch, we invite you to participate in our new “fast pitch” segment.
Here’s the way this works:
- First, perfect your one minute (60 second) audio pitch.
- Record your pitch and save it in some audio format (MP3, WAV, etc.)
- Email the pitch to info AT startuplounge DOT com, with a subject of “Fast Pitch Submission”
- Be sure to include your information in the email, including where the business is (or will be) based
We’ll select a few pitches to play during each show. Once each fast pitch has been played, we’ll provide some comments and feedback for you on air. Depending upon the guest we have during that show, we may ask them to comment on the pitches as well.
If you’re worried about people “stealing your idea” after hearing your one minute fast pitch, immediately tear up your business plan, burn all copies of your Powerpoint presentation, strip down to your underwear, run out into the middle of the street, stab yourself in the eye with a hot poker, and scream “I don’t have what it takes to be a real entrepreneur – I’m sorry, Mom!”
For those of you who realize that the chances of someone listening to your one minute audio pitch, stealing your idea, and actually implementing it are about the same as Scott landing a starting job in the Atlanta Braves pitching rotation, read on.
Some guidelines/rules:
- Your pitch must not be any longer than 60 seconds (1 minute). Anything over this length will not be considered or used on the show.
- The format of the pitch is completely up to you. If you are raising capital, and want to include a mention of that, great. You can also simply pitch the “concept” of your business, and not get into too many details. Think of a one minute elevator ride … how will you explain your business to someone in that small block of time?
- If you need some ideas for the structure of your fast pitch, here are some great samples (courtesy of Tech Coast Angels in California.)
- Pitches from entrepreneurs based in Georgia will get priority consideration. Beyond that, we will consider anything from the southeast before all other submissions.
- While we can work with just about any audio format, we recommend that you record a stereo MP3 file, at the highest resolution possible (at least 128Kbps/44100 Hz, but preferrably 256Kbps).
- Pitches must (obviously) be recorded in English.
Batter up!
Cheers.
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