Babson Hosts 14th Annual Entrepreneur Rocket Pitch Event

With only three minutes in the spotlight, how far will you go to impress your audience?

WELLESLEY, Mass., Oct. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Thursday, October 31st, dozens of teams will be participating in Babson College's 14th annual Rocket Pitch, where Babson undergraduate, graduate, and alumni businesses will present their entrepreneurial ideas to an audience of entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, faculty and students. Armed with only three minutes of stage time and three PowerPoint slides, these entrepreneurs will have to succinctly communicate the uniqueness and necessity of their business ventures. Pitches happen in rapid succession in multiple rooms. Presenters can't answer questions during their pitch, so an open networking reception follows the competition, allowing audience members to connect with the entrepreneurs directly.

Sponsored by the Arthur E. Blank Center and Pepper Hamilton LLP, this event brings forth the young business minds of today and helps them connect with other like-minded business professionals to move their venture forward.  

To register please visit: http://2013babsonrp.eventbrite.com/

Twitter Hashtag: #babsonrp

Rocket Pitch Breakdown by Industry

• 21% tech/mobile
• 16% food/beverage
• 14% consumer products
• 14% web
• 14% other
• 11% service
• 7% nonprofit/social
• 3% energy

Businesses presenting

Technology/Other

• LoopApp, LLC
• Biorock Technology Inc.
• Design by Educators, Inc.
• FlagZ
• Textualize
• Higher Me
• I4class
• Ice Cube
• Legacy Software, Ltd.
• Light Up The Stage
• Match Life
• PayPay Africa
• Pick N Pay
• Printing Future
• Sol Power, LLC
• SpaceExchange
• Understudy.com
• Wanderu
• WineKick
• Yoga Plus +
• Crumb Drum
• GameHaven
• Salamande's Energy Solutions

Web/Consumer Products

• KUFF
• BeeInPlay
• E-Crafters
• FINDMYDOC INC
• Flux
• Go Profile Green
• goSherpas, Inc
• Infobits
• ModelBarter.com
• Startup Rounds
• Transit Lounge
• UtiSave
• "Lighting Concept"
• GoBag
• GrillEasy LLC
• HerBarrio
• Healthrics
• Innovative Cooling
• Madame Senorita
• Oduga
• Parlor Skis
• Shorties
• Tailorclothes.com

Service/Energy

• BOSS : Boston Office For Student Services
• Break Room
• EventsIncentives.com
• The First Offer
• Home Project Connections
• Vocational EXPOSURE
• Jossle
• Maximize Revenue, Inc.
• OrganiCloth
• Plaiding
• Sentio
• Topscience
• Total Entertainment Complex ( T.E.C.)
• UH & B
• Yanapanakuy
• Al Diagnostics
• First Trial
• Hughes Risk Apps
• Synergy Fitness
• TravelMed
• PowerUP
• Thorium Unlimited
• VilSparks
• Crew Languages

Food/Non-Profit

• Grandma Lena's
• CHES, Inc.
• Darrow's
• Food Snobs Unite
• Frosty Tots
• Functional Foods
• Hino-maru
• Kone Express
• North Atlantic Salmon
• Octavia Organics
• Bites Prope Serviettes
• Snaxigo, Inc.
• Sprout Bin
• The Perfect Chaser
• ZOOS Greek Iced-Tea
• The 1511 Foundation
• Alive Music
• Babson Starter
• Chi Spark
• Project Stitch
• Recesspreneurs, Inc.
• Rise Inc.
• Yatha Infratech Private Limited

About Pepper Hamilton LLP

Pepper Hamilton LLP, founded in 1890, is an internationally recognized law firm with more than 500 lawyers nationally. The firm provides corporate, litigation and regulatory legal services to leading businesses, entrepreneurial ventures, private equity funds, governmental entities, nonprofit organizations and individuals throughout the nation and the world.

About The Arthur E. Blank Center

The Arthur E. Blank Center focuses on expanding the practice of Entrepreneurship of All Kinds™ through innovative co-curricular programs and global collaborative research initiatives that inspire and inform Entrepreneurial Thought and Action®. Outside the classroom, students live entrepreneurship through the comprehensive John E. and Alice L. Butler Venture Accelerator Program, more than a dozen student-run entrepreneurship organizations and forums, and the Boston-area entrepreneurial ecosystem.

About Babson

Babson College is the educator, convener, and thought leader for Entrepreneurship of All Kinds™. The College is a dynamic living and learning laboratory, where students, faculty, and staff work together to address the real-world problems of business and society -- while at the same time evolving our methods and advancing our programs. We shape the leaders our world needs most: those with strong functional knowledge and the skills and vision to navigate change, accommodate ambiguity, surmount complexity, and motivate teams in a common purpose to create economic and social value. As we have for nearly a half-century, Babson continues to advance Entrepreneurial Thought and Action® as the most positive force on the planet for generating sustainable economic and social value. For information, visit www.babson.edu.

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