The syndeo team and I (mae, raymond and jason) spent most of this past Saturday at a technopreneur workshop in Ateneo, organized by the good folks at Morph Accelerator. This first day was more of an introduction to Accelerator and its partners, as well as how to properly pitch to investors. I suppose you could say the real meat is on the 5th, where a handful of small startups will make their presentations to a panel of venture-capitalist types. If you’ve ever seen any of the early audition episodes of American Idol, it’s a little bit like that — except with Powerpoint presentations instead of songs.
This is going to be great fun, and I’m actually pretty excited about the whole thing. I spent today putting stuff together for our pitch, and I think we’ve got a pretty decent chance. Can’t really talk about what the pitch will actually contain though, as I’m pretty superstitious about speaking in public. Whether or not we secure any capital for this particular idea, I’m quite sure we’ll find some way to build it out anyway — the VC route just makes things less risky.