The annual Georgetown University StartupHoyas Summer Launch Program Showcase kicked off last night at 1776 DC, where Gray Street Solutions (GSS) Principal, Tyler Gray, and Managing Director, Rick Burchfield, pitched their second venture, PitchPoints, to a sold out crowd!
Gerogetown’s StartupHoyas Summer Launch Program (SLP) is very near and dear to us here at GSS. After all, it was the vehicle we used to successfully launch and scale our creative digital agency! Under the tutelage of Jeff Reid and Alyssa Lovegrove, and with the availability of the fine facilities at the McDonough School of Business, this 8-week program provides students from any GU program with the infrastructure and mentorship to learn and apply Lean Startup best-practices to develop their own new enterprise. Working with excellent mentors such as Marc Steren, Jules Weiss and John Jabara, we continually refined and validated the PitchPoints business model.
See the deck here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/235567101/PitchPoints-Showcase-Deck
As PitchPoints took the stage, our goal was to engage the audience and inform them that the progress we’ve made over the course of the summer has supported our Validated Learning endeavor, conducting multiple customer interviews to make headway on our proof of concept and breathing life into our idea. Currently in the development phase, PitchPoints is looking for mentors, advisors and investors who would like to help the company deliver its MVP! Want to be a beta tester and have your feedback help shape our product? Sign up here.
We’d also like to lend a shoutout to our friends Scott Thompson and Matthew Gonter of VetPrestige. GSS is working with the VetPrestige team to build a custom-designed NationBuilder website, launching the company’s career-focused, social networking site for Top 50 university-educated military veterans.
All of the StartupHoyas participants in the 2014 Summer Launch Program definitely did a great job representing Georgetown and the entrepreneurship initiative! Check out some of the tweets from the night:
Jeff Reid kicking off the pitches!
Definitely an awesome night for all the entrepreneurs
PitchPoints gets praise from those seeing them pitch again.
From left: Scott Thompson (VetPrestige), Tyler Gray (PitchPoints), Matthew Gonter (VetPrestige), Christine Lai (Consequi)
@Hoyaprenuer closing out a fantastic night!
PitchPoints is hoping to roll out its beta version MVP for Fall 2014 and wants to hear from anyone genuinely interested in soccer and the fantasy sports industry! If you’re a passionate soccer fan looking for a way to express your knowledge of “the beautiful game” with friends and like-minded fans across the country, check us out, give us a look and let us know what you think! You can find us at www.pitchpoints.co and @PitchPoints on Twitter.