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| Fund Finalists Dave Lefkow, Bob Mighell, Bill Kallman, Paul Hagen |
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| Back-of-the-Napkin Pitch "Reveal" |
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Mike Almquist, Dan Gerrity, David Guiliani, Jan Hendrickson, Tom T. O'Keefe |
The entire ZINO Society team is very proud of our ZINO Marketplace Investment Forum held earlier this week at the beautiful Pan Pacific Hotel. There were 17 entrepreneurs presenting; 12 ZINOpreneur members with 5-minute pitches and 5 2-minute Back-of-the-Napkin pitches.
Of the ZINOpreneur members' 5-minute presenters, four finalists were selected for consideration for the $50,000 ZINO Marketplace Investment Forum fund which included Dave Lefkow of J&D's Foods, Inc., Bob Mighell of Tilting Motor Works, Bill Kallman of Scayl, Inc., and Paul Hagen of VacuPractor. ZINO Zenith (Peoples' Choice) Awards were awarded to Bob Mighell for Best Presenter and Bill Kallman of Scayl, Inc. for Best Investment Opportunity. Joe Aboubakr of Cargozz LLC received the ZINO Zenith Award for Best Investment Opportunity among the Back-of-the-Napkin presenters. Here is the press release with more details.
In addition, there was a stellar panel of successful entrepreneur "founders" including Michael Almquist, Dan Gerrity, David Guiliani, Jan Hendrickson, and Tom T. O'Keefe who shared some of their "a-ha" lessons learned over the years with the entrepreneurs and investors present. The expert panel also reviewed the "Back-of-the-Napkin-Pitches" and shared which company they would invest in with the very limited knowledge that they had about each company. One of my favorite lines during the forum which drew a roar of laughter was Tom O'Keefe's comment as he was selecting a company and was able to give a call-out to each of the 2-minute presenters, "I can get a card for my wife on our anniversary from Thoughtful People, we can go celebrate at Cold Cold Heart where we can drink Mistica Wine and be protected by GunUp and then get home safely with Cargozz."
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