CEO’s First Meeting of Spring 2012 Semester. All current members and students interested in joining CEO are encouraged to attend. 

Additionally, any current or future members interested in leadership opportunities with CEO will have the opportunity at this meeting to be selected for committee positions.

Thursday, February 9: 7:00pm – 9:00pm, located in Melcher Hall, Bauer Auditorium Room 180.

Join us at our CEO Social at the Queen Vic, Hangout and have fun.

Vice President
Communications Officer
Treasurer
Public Relations Officer
Events Officer
Media/Web Officer
Corporate Relations

If you’re interested in running for any of these Exec Board positions than please send an email to smtd90@gmail.com

When sending out the email we need the following information:
- Full Name
- UH (Main) PeopleSoft ID
- Your RESUME (or a typed up document stating your organization skills & experience)
- Also please identify which Executive Board position you are running for
- A Contact number

Best of Luck candidates!

- CEO 2011 Team

The elevator pitch needs to be 90 seconds long,  no longer or shorter. Please, see tips we have sent you in an e-mail. We have shared videos of the Rice Business Plan Competition winning Elevator Pitch with you, as well, to help you prepare for this Challenge.

Good Luck to all of you!

Got what it takes? Do you have the million dollar idea? Ready or not here it comes!

Elevator Pitch Competition @ CEMO Hall Room 100D Tuesday, Oct. 4th. 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Winner travels to Forth Worth/ Dallas for FREE!

Click here to get the judges sheet and prepare yourself better, look at it and prepare accordingly.

1st Prize

Word of advise:

An elevator pitch is essentially a concise, focused and well re-hearsed description of your business. It is called an elevator pitch because it should be constructed in such a way that it may be delivered during the average elevator ride, which is around 30 seconds. An elevator pitch is not to be used only on investors or during business plan competitions. It is essentially what you should tell everyone when they ask you, what you do. It is hence critical for every entrepreneur to have a carefully constructed elevator pitch. Here are three things I think are vital in an elevator pitch:

1. Define the problem you plan to solve: Even though you have a very short time frame to give your pitch, it is important to incorporate some background into it. Much of the time I find elevator pitches just rush through the entire process, I hear buzz words like enterprise grade security, scalability and user friendliness, but miss the point about the problem they plan on solving.

2. State a clear value proposition: Avoid buzz words as much as possible in your pitch. Keep your value proposition as concise as possible. As clearly as possible let the prospect know how they would benefit directly from the product/solution, and how it solves the problem.

3. Make it personal: Integrate the word “you” and “your” into the pitch as much as possible. The elevator pitch has to be personalized to avoid it from becoming an abstract concept. There is a tendency to overuse the “we” in pitches, whereas this should be replaced with words that talk more about the prospect.

Develop a set of elevator pitches that can be customized to what the target segment wants to hear, and how your concept applies to them. These three components should however remain standard throughout all your permutations. In order to perfect the elevator pitch, rehearse it well enough to know it like the back of your hand. The slightest hesitation in delivery and pitch can be the defining difference between getting that follow up meeting, or not!

Elevator Pitch – From another angle:

1. Keep it short. “You have about 10 seconds to capture someone’s imagination. It’s almost like tweeting in real life,” says Howell. “When people are asking you what you do, what they’re really asking is ‘What can you do for me?’ And they’re listening for that benefit.”
2. Talk about the results, not the process. Most elevator speeches fail because people talk about how they do what they do instead of the results or benefits they provide, Howell points out.
3. Use your imagination. “Come up with something that grabs people by the lapels. It’s a kind of hook to tease them into wanting to hear more.”
4. Remember your audience. Understand who it is you’re trying to attract and say something that’s meaningful to them. Howell says people often tell the audience what they think is important rather than what the audience thinks is important.
5. Don’t overdo it. “A big mistake is doing a data dump instead of encapsulating,” Howell says. “They want to tell the audience everything about everything.”
6. Pay attention to your audience. When pitching to an audience, it’s important to gauge their reactions to ensure that y ou’re holding their interest. “Everybody is channel surfing now, looking for something of interest. A lot of speakers don’t realize when their audience has changed channels.”
7. Keep it simple. Even if your field is technical, try to keep it concise, Howell advises. “I did a workshop for a group of environmental engineers once. One of them said he went to a third-grade class where the kids asked what he did for a living. He said, ‘I dig in the dirt.’ That’s a great elevator speech. Even third graders or college graduates will want to know how a person makes money digging in the dirt.”
8. Keep it fresh. “Sometimes people will come up with an elevator speech that works, and so they neglect to refresh it. As time goes by, your business changes or your audience changes or your market changes. Your elevator speech is a living, breathing tool,” Howell says. “It’s not a spiel that’s set in stone forever.”

[come at earlier, we will be setting everything up there]. You can bring your friends. We will have refreshments provided for you. After the volleyball we will head out to ‘grab a bite’.

FYI: This is a BYOB event

MAKE SURE YOU KNOW where you are HEADING before the event, if you are not familiar with the area, send a text-message to Edgar – 832-643-2692

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This meeting is not mandatory, but will help you perfect your pitch.

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- CEO 2nd Round Table on 04/14/2011 [THU] @ 7:00 PM

- CEO Wine Tasting Event – 04/21/2011 [THU] @ 7:00 PM

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