Every year BioLinc, hosts a weekend dedicated to improving the business pitch of various entrepreneurs. This Improve Your Pitch weekend took place last weekend, January 20-21, 2018 and hosted a variety of both student and young entrepreneurs, and experts there to give mentoring to these entrepreneurs. The weekend is set out in such a way that
participants have the opportunity to participate in a variety of seminars aimed at improving their pitch as well as improving their self awareness. The participants also get to pitch their business idea to a panel of judges twice. At the end of the competition the judges give out an award to both the best pitch and the most improved pitched over the weekend.
Personally seeing the difference in pitches from day one to day two, I can say that a mere one day of improvement showed that these entrepreneurs were ready to take on
the business world. During the second round of pitches it was clear that the participants were much more confident in both their business idea and their public speaking. They were much more liberal with their time and communicated their ideas more clearly. All entrepreneurs might have improved but there were still two groups that seemed to outshine the rest. Domenic Alfieri took home the honour of the most improved pitch, displaying his passion for custom designed interior doors. While Mel Gencer and Sage Gervais combined to take home the weekends best overall pitch for their company HoloEducate, an app designed to assist in the learning experience of youth. Overall the weekend was a huge success and a lot of fun, I am sure that all participants left feeling as though they are a better entrepreneur.
