This past weekend, I attended the New Venture Championship up in Portland. The competition reminded me of my days involved in DECA minus the fact that this competition is real-life with entrepreneurs presenting brilliant ideas that could literally change the world. Neat stuff.
Allen Hall Advertising (AHA) has put countless hours of work into the NVC account and I have to say – it turned out quite well. As I have recently joined this account, I attended the competition in order to get a better feel for what I will be working with.
One of the categories of NVC is the Elevator Pitch competition – one member of each team is given and topic and has one minute to sell his/her idea to a panel of judges. In an effort to raise awareness of NVC here at the U of O, the AHA team constructed its own pseudo elevator and placed the contraption in the lobby of the business school, allowing students to pitch their “ideas” for business ventures. Here are the results:
