Pitch Night is a night, which provides budding entrepreneurs in Sierra Leone the opportunity to pitch their ideas or post revenue business. At pitch night entrepreneurs provide a holistic view of their business to a vibrant Sierra Leonean entrepreneur community allowing them to market their business, solicit feedback, advice and potential partnerships.
Pitch Night Purpose
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- Increase desirability and confidence in pursuing entrepreneurship.
- Provide pitch practice to entrepreneur.
- Role-model pitching and entrepreneurship to others.
- Provides stability to entrepreneurship activities.
- Provides linkages to markets, investors, partners, customers, suppliers, business support services, and capacity developers.
Significance of Freetown Pitch Night
For entrepreneurship and innovation to play the crucial role that they can in creating jobs and growing our economy, Sierra Leone needs to develop a new breed of entrepreneurs’ disruptors, value creating and high-growth entrepreneurs. This type of entrepreneurs, if they are to create significant value, jobs and ultimately economic growth, need an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem.
The Freetown Pitch Night is a crucial and perhaps the most significant part of the Networking assets of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Sierra Leone. Networking assets are defined as community building events, skill training events, collaboration spaces, and networking of mentors, create and sustain these communities.
Website: https://www.freetownpitchnight.com