One of the people I met at The Hour was Marisa Warren, the CEO of Elevacao.org. Purely by chance, I was already signed up to attend the Pitch Ready Workshop, which was hosted by Marisa the following day.

It was a great experience. I especially like the pitch practice that was integrated into the presentation. I happen to sit next to Deb Morrison, CEO and Founder of Pet Cloud, so we ended up partnering each other while we practised different parts of our pitch. Pet Cloud is a mature stage startup, while Start with Tinni just ten days old. So the difference in our pitches was night and day. Deb had the “why”, “what” and other aspects of her business down pat, while I am still polishing my pitch. So that was my big take away from the day, I need to get my story straight.

So the onus is now on me to take what I learnt at the Elevacao Pitch Ready Workshop, combine it with what I learnt on the Creative 3 Pitch 101 Webinar earlier in the year get the pitch for Start with Tinni right. Beyond that, we talked about taking turns pitching for Koostoo. So I need to be ready for that too!

I ended the day by taking a tour of the River City Labs, which is also in The Precinct, which is where the Pitch Ready Workshop too place. It was good to see the limits of River City Labs and get a proper context of how much space they occupy within the Precinct. I am not ready to talk more on that side of things. Suffice to say that I am giving serious considerations to working out of the co-working space at least for a short while.