Saturday, October 2, 2010
1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Greater Ft. Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce
512 N.E. 3rd Avenue, 2nd floor conference room
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Get Launched South Florida! The Launch Pad at UM presents the 2010 Elevator Pitch Contest

What is the Elevator Pitch?

An elevator pitch is a brief overview of a company, product, service or project, delivered in the time span of an elevator ride. All South Florida entrepreneurs with existing for-profit businesses are invited to participate in the 2010 contest and entry is free. Launch Pad will award $100,000 in prizes to finalists as this competition is designed to boost companies to the next level!

Perfect Your Pitch – Workshop this Saturday, October 2^nd 2 p.m. – Greater Ft. Lauderdale Chamber

The Perfect Your Pitch workshop is designed to prepare entrepreneurs for the Elevator Pitch contest. The workshop will be two hours, including a 30-45 minute presentation, a break-out session for the participants to work in small groups, followed by practice and feedback.

The workshops will be led by Melissa Krinzman, Senior Entrepreneurial Fellow, who has a twenty-year history of starting, growing and advising private companies and non-profit organizations and is a frequent speaker on the topic of business plan development. Krinzman is Managing Director of Venture Architects, LLC, and positions private companies for success in the capital-raising process through the development of business plans, financial projections, and investor presentations. Since 1998, Venture Architects has worked with over 500 companies that have raised approximately $750 million in investment capital.

Workshop is free to all interested in competing in the contest, or to those who just want to perfect their pitch!

Networking and check-in begin at 1:30 p.m. Program will start at 2 p.m. Please RSVP to [email protected]