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By Richard Gearhart
Founding Partner

How do you get investors for your business? It starts with you, and with your pitch.  Your pitch includes a ‘pitch deck’ which is a slide presentation with a quick overview of your business. Slides typically include a description of your team, what problem you’re solving, the market, your competition and your advantages over that competition, and it may include plans for an ‘exit’, which describes who would buy your company, in what time frame, and for how much.

Investors want to have confidence that the person leading the company that they’re investing in is the right choice. The first impression they get of you is your pitch.  If that falls flat, they’ll look elsewhere.  There are programs that help entrepreneurs develop their companies and their pitches.  We’re lucky to have TechLaunch in Northern NJ, our answer to Shark Tank!

If you want to find out more about pitching and the process, join myself and others from the entrepreneurial community on June 22nd at Fairleigh Dickinson University for TechLaunch’s Bullpen, where you can observe a pitch competition led by some of the best. It may inspire you to go to TechLaunch and pitch your own company!

TO SIT IN THE AUDIENCE AND OBSERVE THIS EVENT YOU MUST REGISTER AT THE EVENTBRITE SITE: REGISTER TO ATTEND HERE

JUNE 22, 2017, FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON U., MADISON, NJ CAMPUS

Agenda:

4:30- 5:15 Registration/Pizza/Networking

5:15 – 5:30 Introductions

5:30- 7:30 BullPen Program (3-4 Investor Pitches)

7:30 – TBD Winners announced & networking with Entrepreneurs and Investors.

We hope to see you there!

About the Author
Richard Gearhart, Esq. is the founder of Gearhart Law and the host of a weekly radio show for entrepreneurs called “Passage to Profit”. He has built a firm with an international presence that helps entrepreneurs from around the world with their patent, trademark and copyright needs. Richard commands a breadth of experience that comes from nearly 30 years of practice in the writing and prosecution of hundreds of patents, and in all aspects of Intellectual Property law. In 2022, Richard was recognized by ROI New Jersey as a 2022 ROI Influencer in the Law List category for being one of the best of the best in New Jersey for intellectual property law. Gearhart Law emerged from Richard’s passion for entrepreneurship and startups and his belief that entrepreneurship grows the economy and creates jobs. When we started Gearhart Law, our goal was to help and support the new business ventures of 500 entrepreneurs and inventors. After 12 years, the firm has far surpassed this goal; today, we look forward to helping even more inventors and entrepreneurs get off to a great start and reach their own goals.