Elevating Your Elevator Pitch – Developing a Powerful Pitch

Nicole Toomey Davis leads a workshop “Elevating Your Elevator Pitch” helping entrepreneurs develop a powerful elevator pitch. It is designed to be very “hands on” to help entrepreneurs develop a foundational elevator pitch that includes all of the items needed for a wide array of situations – potential investors, partners, customers and future employees. This content comes from the VentureWrench course “Designing the Perfect Investor – Raising Money for Your Startup” found at VentureWrench.com

Each participant will leave with a working elevator pitch for their startup. Please bring a business card for the activity.*

Nicole Toomey Davis is a serial entrepreneur and the President, CEO and co-founder of Enclavix, LLC, creators of the VentureWrench Startup Coaching Community with a vision of high tech and high touch to help coach large numbers of entrepreneurs effectively.. The company has received over $1.2 million in funding from the National Science Foundation through the SBIR program to allow the launch of the Machine Learning – powered VentureWrench Library, the free online library of curated startup resources to help entrepreneurs get quickly to success.

Ms. Davis is the former President, CEO and co-founder of DoBox, Inc., an award winning internet software company. Ms. Davis raised $2.6 million in investor funding for DoBox and led the company to a successful acquisition by Netopia, Inc. which was later acquired by Motorola.

Ms. Davis led Utah’s grant funding and mentoring program, the Centers of Excellence program to help university spinouts succeed and has served on many non-profit boards and has received many recognitions from the community including the Lifetime Achievement Honoree award from Utah Genius on April 2018.

Ms. Davis holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is a published author, with textbook contributions, press articles and a published case study co-authored with Jim Collins to her credit. She is often called on to share her experiences as an entrepreneur and leader by serving as a speaker, teacher and coach.

Join us at Entrepreneur Launch Pad

ABOUT: We begin each week learning about business programs that will help either the entrepreneur that is looking to start a business or those that have launched their business. Attend and learn about either an aspect of the Business Model Canvas or Business leadership, marketing, accounting and management.

Following the educational discussion we will break up into perspective groups:
• Group 1: Discovery / Orientation / Introduction
• Group 2: Work on Value Proposition to Market Segment match
• Group 3: Develop other parts of your canvas, validating
• Group 4: Mastermind group - for businesses that have fully completed their canvas and are already generating revenue or are heavily into the validation or growth process.

Learn more about the Business Model Canvas:
Udacity Course: http://j.mp/LaunchPadCourse
Canvas Resources: http://j.mp/CanvasResources

Where: NorthFront Business Resource Center 450 S. Simmons Way, Kaysville,
When: Every Wednesday from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm with networking opportunities afterward.
Site Contact: Scott Farnes at scott@cpaone.net or 801-927-1337 for more information.