We invite our community members to pitch their ideas and projects to our team. Let us know which great things you are working on and how we can better help make your story a success! Meet us in our space at Jülicher Straße for 15 minutes on a Monday afternoon

Participation in these pitches is mandatory once a year for every team in the CI community!

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<aside> 🎯 Depending on the state of your team, the pitch will have a different focus:

• For us to learn your USP, roadmap and challenges so that…

  … we can tell people about you.

  … we can connect you to other relevant teams.

  … we can connect you to offers from us or our service partners.

• For us to explore together how the CI can help you further.

• For you to practice your pitches skills. </aside>

The Pitch

• Prepare your presentation - max. 5 minutes, details are for afterwards.
• The audience will be a handful people from the Collective Incubator board and community management team. Sometimes there are also Start-Up Coaches from the Rwth-Innovation.
• Make sure it contains the following topics
  • For start-ups: Problem & Solution, Product/Service, Business Model, Traction (Customers, Media Attention, Technical Achievements, …), Roadmap
  • For student initiatives: What’s your Mission? What do you do (competitions, events, …)? How are you organized? How are you funded? What are you working on right now?
• Prepare your pitch! It is a great opportunity to practice your pitch, so that you can better convince other’s of your project. We’re happy to give you feedback thers of your project.
• We will use the remaining 10 minutes for remaining questions and open discussion.
• Available equipment:
  • HDMI oder USB-C for monitor
  • Presenter with USB-A

Dates

• Every Monday between 1 PM and 2 PM.

• Each date has three possible slots in 20-minute increments.

• Register here:

  Pitch-ups - Collective Incubator

• You can either take the initiative yourself or we will notify you to book a slot :)

Discussion

In the open discussion, we want to learn the needs of your team and feedback for the CI. Do you…

• Need any special-purpose rooms?
• Need help getting traction?
• Need coaches?
• Need team members?