The Nashville Tech Story (October 1, 2009)
The Nashville Startup Weekend crew hosted a pitch camp last night. The pitch camp listened to more than 20 different pitches and helped the budding entrepreneurs hone their pitch skills. In addition, the audience gathered at Owen Graduate School at Vanderbilt, was able to get more information about the weekend.
For $40, participants get to work within teams to start a business over the weekend, which includes food and drinks over the weekend.
Joe Kustelski, the product manager for the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, not only provided feedback as a guest panelist, but pitched his own ideas as well. Chris Ennis joined the pitch session via Skype. The whole event was viewable live on UStream.com.
Nashville Startup Weekend is October 9-11, 2009, with Pitching beginning at 5:30 pm. Everyone will have one minute to pitch their ideas. Then the participants will select the top 8-10 ideas and begin forming companies and working immediately. On Sunday afternoon, the companies will pitch their company to participants and selected capital players.
