Thursday, March 4, 2010

The Bold Sell Competition

Get it? The BS Competition?

According to the Bold Sell Competition Website, the competition consists of contestants making a sales pitch to a group of investors. However the catch is that they don't know what they are pitching until they are on stage. Contestants stumble their way through 6 slides in 7 minutes making everything up as they go! The slides consists of outrageously unconnected pictures combined with revenue graphs and strategy charts that make absolutely no sense.

On Wednesday evening, I had the please of attending this event. It was one of the funniest competitions I have ever experienced. It was amazing to watch in anticipation (with the contestants) of what the next slide brings and then to see them explain the slide with such grace and confidence with little more than a pause.

I would highly encourage you to attend one of these competitions if you ever get the chance.

A video of the preliminaries can be found here on you tube. I'll try to post the finals as they become available.