Friday, April 3, 2009

FastPitch - We won!!!

Assassins was selected as a finalist for FastPitch Nashville (thank you Jackson for getting us to the finals!) and we're happy to report we won $1000 for our 60 sec pitch. Jackson and myself had a great time preparing for the event & we can deliver one mean 60 sec pitch for Assassins :)

The event was superb and personally, I'm most pleased with how we interacted with the judges. In particular, one judge was a well-known VC & he consistently asked tough questions to each presenter. We were prepared & the quality of our answers earned us one of (if not THE) highest score he gave the entire evening. That, above all us, was the highlight for me because he was the most knowledgeable critic of business viability.

We also learned that we need a Facebook Group for Assassins! Jackson and myself have a combined Twitter network of 1000 people - yet we trailed the popular vote significantly because the leading team had a powerful Facebook group. This isn't a mistake I'll make again :)