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BigSuccess Social Business Pitch - Meet Kiva, IDEO & Comcast

Jun 24
Wed 6:15 PM
Location
Action Theatre - Metreon 2nd Floor

101 4th St
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 369-6030

How to find us
"2nd Floor"

Estimated attendance
 138  people attended.
4.00 4.0011

Who organized?
Edith and Linda

You are invited to enter your business pitch for a chance to win an exclusive 5 minute interview on CBS5.

The Big Success Business Pitch Contest is the ultimate business pitch competition for entrepreneurs and small business owners. The contest is created to encourage entrepreneurs to broadcast their business, passion and ideas on the internet (Facebook), in person (June 24) and on traditional media (CBS 5)!

This live event will be very similar to American Idol, except that the contestants will be entrepreneurs and instead of singing, it will be business pitches.

Join the Big Success Business Pitch Contest, the nation’s first video business pitch contest on Facebook!


Who are our judges?


Premal Shah
President, Kiva.org


Jocelyn Wyatt
Social Impact domain lead, IDEO


Mark O'Leary
Regional Vice President of Comcast Business Class


MC: Edith Yeung, Founder of BizTechDay


Here is how it works...

Upload Pitch
Upload your 90 seconds pitch video on YouTube. If you are not sure what to say…check out this article What makes a great 90 second business pitch?

Join Contest
Entrepreneurs who join this contest expose their business to the Facebook community before quarterly deadlines. Next deadline: June 19, 2009 11:59 p.m.

Get Votes
Share your Big Success pitch with friends and anyone who needs to know about your business.

How to Win?
The top five voted entrepreneurs will be selected to pitch and compete to be a quarterly winner in front of a live audience and a panel of judges consisting of seasoned entrepreneurs/potential investors. The quarterly winner will be determined by the panel of judges and receive a prize of being featured on San Francisco TV station CBS5 for 5 minutes!


And what else – the Grand Prize…
Each quarterly winner also becomes one of the finalists for the Big Success Finale which will take place on BizTechDay, the annual technology day for small business which will be held on October 22-23 this year in San Francisco. The 2009 Big Success Champion will receive a 30-minute exclusive interview on CBS5 and win a free trip to Miami.


*This WILL BE ANOTHER sold out event! Seats will be limited and on a first come first served basis


*We cannot guarantee your name to be on the list unless you paid in advance by Eventbrite. (Just click here)


Tickets:
$25 - At the Door
$20 - Pay in Advance @ Eventbrite
$450 - Pay in Advance @ Eventbrite and become Table Champ (a.k.a. Exhibitor) - As a Table Champ, you will receive one table at the event to show off your stuff (products or services), 4 attendee tickets, thank you in the program, logos display on Eventbrite and 2X mentions on SFentrepreneur weekly community emails. We will only accept maximum of 6 Table Champ per event. =)


Who should attend this event?
Everyone but especially entrepreneurs, small business owners, idea makers.

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Who attended?

  • 138 attendees
    • “ Well done... ”
    • Edith (+96 guests)
      “ The pitches were excellent! The quality of the judges are fantastic! ”
    • “ Fantastic evening all round. The pitches were informative and entertaining; the Judges shared some great insights and the networking as always was excellent!! ”
    • “ It was great to hear innovative ideas and to meet new people! ”
    • “ Generally ok. It would be great if we could move thru the presentations, Q & A quicker. Disappointing to see the room 1/2 empty for the 90 sec mic. ”
    • “ Edith and the rest of her (I assume) volunteer staff is to commended for their efforts. ”
    • “ Congrats to you call who made the top 5! I loved the ideas:) ”
    • “ Excellent meetup event. I am so impressed at the judges expertise and valuable feedback that we could all benefit from. I did do a video at the end of the event, but I am wondering if I could re-submit another one since I don't think it was as perfect as I would like it to be. But the practice was great. I am also wondering how we view these videos now? Where will the videos that were made at this event last night (June 24rth) be posted? I went to facebook but they don't seem to be there. Is there a link that someone could send to me? And what is the due date for submitting a video for Q3 contest, as I think I would like to re-submit something a bit more rehearsed and polished before that deadline to pitch www.artisancreative.com. I had a wonderful time and will look forward to the Thursday event learning more about how to present yourself and your company in the media when on t.v. July 23rd on Thursday evening. That should be so beneficial. I am in awe of the great help. ”
    • “ The program was a little too long, so I left early, but overall it was a great event. The materials going out before the event could have been clearer about the agenda--I wasn't sure exactly what was going to happen until I got the program at the event. ”
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