for PREVIOUSLY INCARCERATED BRIDGEPORT RESIDENTS

PRESENTED BY: Entrepreneurship Foundation, Mayor's Initiative for Reentry Affairs (MIRA), and Minority Entrepreneurs Training Association (META)

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (Community Room of City Hall, 999 Broad Street)
Register for free at reenter.eventbrite.com     

MAY 30 (Thur at 6 pm) Dinner served at 5:30 – Orientation, Training, Meet with mentors 

JUNE 6 (Thur 6 pm) – Presentation Skills, Practice Pitching – Marcia Fountain, META

JUNE 20 – Deadline to apply at  www.bit.ly/bptreenter  

JUNE 25 – Finalists notified via email

JUNE 27 – (Thur 6 pm) – Final presentations (90-second elevator pitch without A-V)

                   Judges will then ask questions

AWARD PROCESS

1. Complete online application at www.bit.ly/bptreenter by June 20

2. Finalists will be notified by email on June 25

3. Finalists will give 90-second elevator pitch (without audiovisuals) on June 27

FINAL PRESENTATION PITCH OUTLINE

a) Your name

b) Company name

c) Problem you’re solving

d) Your solution to the problem

e) Competing solutions and how yours serves a need the other do not

f) How will you market your product or service – be specific

g) Your stage of development 

h) What needs to be done to take to market (or to grow sales, if already in the marketplace)

i) How much you need to launch (or grow existing business)

AWARDS

$4000, $2000, $1000, $1000, $500, $500 cash grants

+ two vouchers for a marketing video for website, IG, or Kickstarter

QUESTIONS?  Contact Mike Roer at Roer@EntrepreneurshipFoundation.org