At this special workshop with pitch expert Barbara Russell, find out how to craft a winning pitch presentation for competitions and investors!
This workshop is open to current Boston University students and class of 2020 alumni.
Don't miss this workshop if you're:
- planning to compete in this year's New Venture Competition
- preparing for an Innovation Pathway investment panel
- hoping to compete in other business plan competitions or pitch to potential investors
What you'll learn:
- the basics of how to create a killer presentation and win a pitch competition
- how to create a crisp, clear, well-reasoned pitch deck and then, how to effectively communicate that deck to the audience
- what is it that the judges want to hear and how do you appeal to their mindset and expectations
- and, review pitch deck examples from LinkedIn, Uber, Youtube (and more)–you be the judge of the good and bad!
Meet the Speaker:
Barbara Dalton Russell co-founded Cap W – an Advisory/investment Banking firm focused on early/mid-stage tech-enabled companies, characterized by strong female and/or POC founders & teams, solving BIG problems with massive market opportunities. We advance the ability of companies principally focused on the AI/ML, VR/AR, ed-tech, clean-tech and fin-tech sectors to succeed through our model of investing and providing strategic advice that maximizes the ability of these companies to scale via targeted fundraising from optimal/inclusive strategic, venture, and other capital sources.
Barbara serves on the board of several rapidly-scaling, early and mid-stage companies, providing advice fueled from her 28 years of experience in private equity, investment banking, M&A, and capital markets. She also serves on non-profit boards including: Alliance for Business Leadership (ABL)and NFTE, both of which represent her progressive views on diversity and inclusion.
Prior to Cap W, Ms. Russell was Managing Director of Investment Banking at Detwiler Fenton, co-founder of: the Social Internet Fund (2011) with Lou Kerner; Bold Cap, a woman-focused venture fund, with Kay Koplovitz, Heide Miller,& Barbara Corcoran (SharkTank), and before that, Senior Partner, and Group Head of the Media, Entertainment, New Media investment banking group at CIBC Oppenheimer, where she raised significant amounts of capital as well as provided advice to technology, media, & digital companies.
Ms. Russell is a mentor, judge, and/or investor in several accelerators, angel investment groups, and not-for-profits including: TechStars; LearnLaunch; Harvard i-Lab; NYS Bus.Plan Comp; Rice University Bus.Plan Comp; National Venture Plan Competition; U Mass-Lowell Innovation Contest; Virginia Tech Pitch Comp; and MIT Alumni Angels. She has been a senior lecturer at Babson, MIT and University of Massachusetts. She received her MBA from the Sloan School at MIT and a BA in Economics from Boston University.
Innovate@BU is a University-wide initiative to enable all BU Terriers to become drivers of innovation in their own lives, careers, and communities. Innovate@BU's physical home, the BUild Lab IDG Capital Student Innovation Center, hosts experiential learning programs that foster an entrepreneurial mindset and help students develop innovation, communication, and collaboration skills. Check out more Innovate@BU events!
