Princeton Pitch is the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club’s annual elevator pitch competition, in which teams have 60 seconds to convey their business idea and convince a panel of judges that their team and idea have the most potential. There are no prompts, no slideshows, and no demos – just words.
Princeton Pitch has two tracks – an Entrepreneurship Track and a Social Entrepreneurship Track, each with prizes for the best pitch as well as awards for honorable mention.
The competition also serves as a pre-cursor to TigerLaunch, our annual startup challenge in which teams submit business plans or product demos and compete on a much larger scale. Princeton students are invited to come out and test out pitching their ideas and pitching themselves, then go on to compete in TigerLaunch early in the Spring semester.
The application deadline for Princeton Pitch 2011 has passed. Check back for updates on the application for Princeton Pitch 2012, which will be held sometime in November.
2011
Entrepreneurship Track
- First Place: GradeZone Points (Kofi Frimpong, Max Huc, Trevor Wilkins, and William Lee)
- Honorable Mention: FuLu (Ash Egan and Bobby Grogan)
Social Entrepreneurship Track
- First Place: PenniPads (Ashley Eberhart, Aunna Wilson, Rebecca Scharfstein, Alexandra Deprez, and Derek Grego)
- Honorable Mention: DUMA (Christine Blauvelt and Arielle Sandor)
2010
- First Place: China’s Netflix (Guanchun Wang and Zhen Xiang)
- Honorable Mention: Liberian Condoms (Alex Landon)
