Pitch&Polish your entrepreneurial ideas
The Pitch & Polish platform is designed to give local entrepreneurs the opportunity to have their ideas brainstormed, tested and challenged.
Do you have an innovative and brilliant business or idea?
Do you want to learn how to pitch your business idea effectively?
Do you want to take your existing business to the next level?
If you answered yes, then Pitch & Polish is the free entrepreneurial training workshop for you.
The Pitch & Polish platform is designed to give local entrepreneurs the opportunity to have their ideas brainstormed, tested and challenged.
Through the course of the day, they receive valuable feedback and insights – and win cash prizes.
The format includes both a workshop and competition element.
It is a lateral-thinking national business competition, exposing would-be entrepreneurs to entrepreneurial training and thinking, helping entrepreneurs to turn their business or business idea into a success.
It is a unique platform and search for the wonderfully hidden entrepreneurial gems in South Africa.
Allon Raiz, CEO of Raizcorp, recognised the need to develop entrepreneurs and became committed to providing existing and potential small business owners (SMMEs) with entrepreneurial thinking and knowledge. He designed a dynamic programme, Pitch & Polish, which was launched in 2010 throughout the country. The prime objective for Pitch & Polish is to help entrepreneurs across South Africa polish their business pitch.
Format of the event:
- Participants take part in a free day-long competition-based workshop.
- Pre-registration is required to be a participant and/or contestant.
- On the day contestants “pitch” their business idea to the audience.
- A facilitator gives tips and guidance, helped by the audience, to “polish” the pitch until the contestants have a professional and in-depth presentation.
- The audience are primed to role-play as bankers and investors and interact throughout the day with valuable feedback.
- The event culminates in the contestants giving their final three minute pitch.
- It is a learning environment and opportunity for both the contestants and participants.
- Both contestants and audience discover how to produce a compelling, well-rounded presentation.
- It’s fun, stimulating and motivational.
The free Pitch & Polish workshop will be held on August 27 at CedarWoods, 120 Western Service Road, Woodmead
For more information, go to www.pitchandpolish.com
