What can budding entrepreneurs learn from hip-hop? As a new Philadelphia program has shown students: quite a lot.
In a modish coworking space overlooking downtown Philadelphia, Imowo “Veli” Udo-Uton has six minutes to persuade six investors to finance his startup.
He has an event production company he wants to take to the next level, and, clad in a baseball cap and black-framed glasses, he outlines his plan—his ticket sale models, room occupancy caps, and the first few big venueshe can get with more capital. He tries to keep it animated and conversational. But midway through, he falters.
“I feel like I’m talking too much,” he says. “I’m not presenting.”
“Don’t do a corporate pitch,” says one person. “That’s not you, man. Be you.”
“Keep going, Veli,” says another.
The cellphone timer chirps,and the pitch is over. The audience claps. Veli looks relieved.
This isn’t an actual pitch. The “investors” are Veli’s fellow students, and the venue is the Institute for Hip Hop Entrepreneurship, an experimental, nine-month, tuition-free program that uses lessons from music industry moguls to teach young people how to run their own businesses, and then awards the strongest pitches shares of $30,000 in seed money.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة September 2017 من Entrepreneur.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة September 2017 من Entrepreneur.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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