Pitching OCRI and Tenacity

Yesterday I pitched to the Commercialization Panel of the Ontario Center for Research and Innovation . It went ok, but not as well as most of my recent pitches. It's funny how that goes. I adjusted my presentation slightly to pare down a few slides and make it shorter, but somewhere in that paring some critical information must have been lost because there seemed to be alot more confusion on what it was I was pitching. I figured the people in uniform on the first slide and the bold lettered "Workopolis for Junior Officers" would have been sufficient explanation, but it seems not. There was also alot of push from the panelists to drop the civiside.com and get the military.ca domain so that I could be a "franchisee" of the popular U.S. site military.com. I know this is well intentioned advice...but really? You think it's just that easy? In addition, the name of the domain is almost irrelevant compared to the quality of the employers on the site, and that is why I expressed my need for marketing and sales help from the beginning. Frankly, I don't know what kind of help I may get from these people. I'll report back when I hear, in the meantime I'll just keep pushing forward in any way I can.

On a related note, I came across this post on qualities essential in an entrepreneur and see tenacity as being my greatest strength. I should have given this up a year ago at least. Any sane person would have, but my passion for seeing this through miraculously keeps me sustained despite almost no encouragement from outside sources. On a positive note, despite all the ups and downs I have learned a diverse set of skills that I simply could not have learned in any other way. Overall a plus experience.

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