Pitch the Angels Applications Open
Atticus Wagner at the Tech Coast Angels let me know last week that the Tech Coast Angels is now taking applications for their Fast Pitch event coming up in January. For entrepreneurs who aren’t familiar with what a “fast pitch” is, it is a very short, 60 second “elevator pitch” on your company. The idea behind the competition is to pit a number of entrepreneurs — all looking for funding — in a competition to see who can best convince an investor to make an investment in their company. It’s very informative, entertaining, and actually a useful skill to have. Last January, the winner of the Fast Pitch was Leads360. Frank Peters (podcaster and president of the Tech Coast Angels) has an archive of that winning pitch posted on his podcast page; Leads360 eventually raised $3.25M in a venture round from Rustic Canyon Partners.
[...] Benjamin Kuo of socalTECH.com wrote about the upcoming fast pitch event that we were honored to participate in last year. [...]