Name: Founders Local Pitch Presentation Skills
Start: 2025-01-22T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-22T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Raleigh Founded (North Street)

Founders Local Pitch Presentation Skills

Are you an entrepreneur or startup founder planning to fundraise? Nail your pitching skills in a safe environment first and get feedback.
About this Event

Whether you are tossing around an idea to see if it has some sticking power or you’re preparing to actively start fundraising, this is the event for you!

In addition to our standard Founders Local Pitch Nights, I'm adding this free presentation skills workshop to focus just on delivery skills and how you tell your story.

This will be a small workshop where you will be getting up and making a small presentation and getting immediate feedback to enhance it. I'll cover how you hold a mic, where to stand, how to work the room, how to move, how to use your body, and how you deliver your story.

How should you prepare? Come prepared with a 3-minute pitch on your business adventure. Bring slides or any visuals you would use in an official pitch.

Since this first workshop is free, it will be first-come-first-served. I plan to cover 5-8 pitches in the two hours. The workshop is open for those who want to learn but are not ready to pitch yet.

Times:

Doors open at 5:45pm for networking.

First pitch will start at 6:15pm.

We'll have 30 minutes at the end for more networking.

NOTE: We'll be holding the event at Raleigh Founded (North Street) in downtown Raleigh.

Parking:

Paid Parking is available in their lot.

Street (meter) parking is paid until 6pm and free afterwards.

I WANT TO PITCH

If you would like to be one of the companies pitching, please also fill out this form.

Pitch Sign Up Form

ABOUT HOST:

Oz Merchant is CEO of ecomsellersHQ and runs Founders Local, a startup hub to bring founders the resources they need. He has 17 years of experience in the local startup community with six previous startups, of which 3 had an exit. He has consulted and coached startup founders across 5 continents. Oz is also a SCORE Mentor for the Raleigh Chapter and is the Program Director for Founder Institute Raleigh (world's largest pre-seed accelerator). Startups are his passion and he loves connecting budding founders with the resources they need to make their vision a reality.

This is a free event hosted by Founders Local.