EVENT DETAILS

Presented by:
Entrepreneurship@Lubin

and the

In association with:
The Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship

Sponsored by:
MeredithFinancial Group

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
5:00 p.m.- 7:45 p.m.
Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, NYC
(entrance on Spruce Street, between William Street and Gold Street)

Featuring Keynote Speaker Gurbaksh Chahal
Founder of Blue Lithium, which was acquired by Yahoo! for $300 million

The Pace Pitch Contest is based on the Elevator Pitch concept, popular in the venture capital community. It is an extremely concise presentation of an entrepreneur's idea, business model, marketing strategy, competitive analysis, and financial plan, which is delivered to potential investors. The premise is that it could be made in a few minutes, should the entrepreneur spot a potential investor on an elevator and have the opportunity to pitch their idea during the brief ride.

At this year's Pace Pitch Contest, five finalists in the New Business Concept category and five finalists in the Social Venture category will each have exactly three minutes to pitch their new venture idea to a distinguished panel of judges and an enthusiastic audience. In addition to broad participation at Pace, we have been pleased to welcome student competitors from a number of other universities, including Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford.

The Keynote Speaker will be Gurbaksh Chahal. Gurbaksh, or "G", started his first venture, ClickAgents, at the age of 16 and sold it two years later to ValueClick for $40 million. In 2004, he formed Blue Lithium, another Internet advertising network, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2007 for $300 million. In October, Gurbaksh appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and released his book, The Dream. He will star in the new Fox primetime network show, Secret Millionaire, which premieres in December.

The Judging Panel includes Steve Brotman, Chief Managing Director of Greenhill & Co.; Matthew Commons, CFO of FloDesign and winner of the 2008 MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize ($200K); William Potter, Chairman of Meredith Financial Group; David Rose, Chairman of NY Angels; and Lori Smith, a partner at the law firm Goodwin Procter LLP.

The schedule of events is as follows:

5:00 to 5:30 Registration and Book Signing by Gurbaksh Chahal

5:30 to 6:00 Introductions and Keynote Speaker

6:00 to 6:45 Ten Finalists make their Pitch (target: 5 commercial and 5 social)

6:45 to 7:00 Break (Judges select the winning pitches in private)

7:00 to 7:30 Judging Panel Discussion and Critique

7:30 to 7:45 Awards Ceremony

www.pace.edu/pitch