UW Entre 370 Pitch Excellent

UW Entre 370 Team members Shannon Parson, Jordan Benson,
Auston Lende, Jean Blatchford and Charlie Hughes with Cathi Hatch

This morning, I went to the University of Washington to see the Entrepreneur 370 student team from UW Foster School of Business Assistant Professor Emily Cox' class that I have been mentoring this quarter give their entrepreneur pitch.  The team included Charlie Hughes, Shannon Parson, Auston Lende, Jean Blatchford and Jordan Benson.

The name of their company is UWheelz and is planned to be a non-profit which provides bicycle rentals by the hour to students and guests on the University of Washington campus at a reasonable price.  It was rewarding to watch how far the team came from our first meeting in January to their class pitch today.  Their Powerpoint slides were crisp and easy to read and understand with the use of lots of photos. Each team member did a great job of his or her part of the presentation, speaking with clarity and confidence.  Charlie also did a fine job of acting that he had arrived late to class since he didn't have transportation from the bus stop, which of course UWheelz, when up and operating, would have solved his problem.

I am so pleased that I could help mentor this team and I was so impressed with their final pitch.  Now, I better send this blog posting to Professor Cox and try to help them lobby for an "A"!  Actually, I probably don't need to lobby, since they did such a great job anyway!

I also stayed for one more pitch in order to also see Stephanie Halamek's team (whom I know since we worked together on the Social Venture Partners  SIFP 2011 project) pitch their project, which was entitled Breakfast in Bed.  Her team's pitch came with warm cinnamon rolls straight from the oven!  Yum!