| Starts: | Thursday December 03, 2009 at 5:00pm |
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| Ends: | Thursday December 03, 2009 at 7:45pm |
| Event Type: | Other |
| Region: | Greater New York City Area |
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Pace University - Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts One Pace Plaza New York, NY 10038 US |
| Price: | |
| Website: | http://www.pace.edu/pitch |
| Industry: | education management |
| Keywords: | Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Contest, Competition, Startup, Lubin School Of Business, Pace University |
| Intended For: | student, faculty, professor, entrepreneur, venture capital, angel investor, entrepreneur |
| Organization: | Pace University |
Ten Finalists each have 3 minutes to pitch a New Business Concept or Social Venture for a chance to win over $50,000 in cash prizes.
The Pace Pitch Contest is based on the Elevator Pitch concept, popular in the venture capital community. It is an extremely concise presentation of an entrepreneur's idea, business model, marketing strategy, competitive analysis, and financial plan, which is delivered to potential investors. The premise is that it could be made in a few minutes, should the entrepreneur spot a potential investor on an elevator and have the opportunity to pitch their idea during the brief ride.
At this year's Pace Pitch Contest, five finalists in the New Business Concept category and five finalists in the Social Venture category will each have exactly three minutes to pitch their new venture idea to a distinguished panel of judges and an enthusiastic audience. In addition to broad participation at Pace, we have been pleased to welcome student competitors from a number of other universities, including Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford.
See a video of the Pitch COntest at: http://bit.ly/Nnu0z
MIT Professor Iqbal Quadir will serve as the Keynote Speaker for the Sixth Annual Pace Pitch Contest. Professor Quadir is the founder of Gonofone and GrameenPhone, and is currently the Founder and Director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the founding co-editor of Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, a journal published by MIT Press. Additional biographical information is available at: http://legatum.mit.edu/director and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iqbal_Quadir.