Next Monthly Program - June 12, 2012
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2012 Five Minute Pitch Contest
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June 12, 2012
Campus Center - Odeum, 3rd floor
Doors open for networking: 4:30 pm
Meeting: 6:00–8:30 p.m.
Cost:
Free for members and students with ID
$15 for WPI alumni
$30 for general public
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Five Minutes to Fame for 10 Finalists
by Justin Nesbit and Dan Young
June 12 Pitch Contest Starts at 6 p.m.
Five minutes to win it. The WPI Venture Forum Five-Minute Pitch Contest is a fast-paced battle for funding and fame among ten early-stage technology companies. On Tuesday, June 12, the sixth annual contest will feature finalists who have met the first round judges’ criteria for quality of business model, nature of innovation application, extent of market opportunity, specific competitive advantages and leadership team. Early-stage businesses may be at any stage from conceptual to operating.
Finalists will have had the opportunity for professional mentoring to polish their pitch, including videotape feedback to fine-tune their presentation. In addition, they may participate in a poster session where they can give their pre-program pitch to onlookers. The posters will be set up in the lobby area of the third floor of the WPI Campus Center from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
To accommodate the ten presentations, please note the meeting will begin at 6 p.m., a half-hour earlier than usual. Five judges as well as the audience will evaluate the finalists on their presentation skills and overall performance, with separate cash prizes, one from the judges and the other based on audience choice, selected through wireless devices. The prizes are provided through the generosity of sponsors Wolf Greenfield and Gesmer Updegrove LLP.
This year’s judges include: Abigail Barrow of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC), Jerry Bird of the Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation (MTDC), Todd Keiller of WPI, Peter Moldave of Gesmer Updegrove, and Douglas Wolf of Wolf Greenfield.
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