Tuesday saw Richard and I pitch our business plan to a "Dragons-Den style panel" in the final stage of Leicester College's Freeth Cartwright sponsorship award 2011, competing against three other hopefuls.
Yes and as the title suggests, we were unfortunately unsuccessful in our bid. Our downfall was most likely our market research, but didn't help when the presentation took a turn for the worse when the video and audio samples integrated into the presentation, wouldn't play. So the panel got to watch all my actions on the big screen, while i frantically searched through my files for the original video and audio files. I wouldn't have minded, but rich and i purposefully went into the college early to make sure all would work with the presentation, which it did. However, it seemed that the media player used on the system was a totally different version and it made us look a bit daft.
Despite not winning and with all the troubles encountered during the presentation, there are lots to be taken from the whole experience, as well as some great advice for the panel members. It's also pleasing to think that we did beat 30 other applicants to become runners-up. Which isn't too bad i guess and it shows that there is some potential in the ideas Richard and i have.
The full £5000 prize went to a gentleman with some form of photography business (I'm in the process of contacting the winning, congratulating him and also getting the the full picture of what his project is based around), so good luck to him.
Bottom line, Richard and i are failures.
Whats next?
Well, i was hoping to talk about the guest mix with Paul Tipler, but unfortunately he had to cancel because of the good old train system, but he should be being rescheduled for sometime in September, so hopefully I'll catch him them. Sunday should see an exciting event take place, but I'm tell all after it's happened.
Aside from that, all my efforts are going into swatting up for the Logic 101 Apple Certification course i intend to complete next week and with college finishing in a week or two, its time to find a job.
I'll leave you with this:
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