Perfecting Your Pitch with Jason Bacon

​How to Perfect Your Pitches: A 3-Part Series

Are you an early-stage entrepreneur looking to perfect your pitch so you attract investors, customers, or mentors?

Then you won’t want to miss this special two-part workshop series: How to Perfect Your Pitches.

Designed specifically for emerging founders, startups, and small business owners, this series will reveal the secrets to crafting pitches that get results — whether you're trying to break into an accelerator, secure funding, or win over your first customers.

This seires is hosted by Alberta’s eight Regional Innovation Networks, supported by Alberta Innovates.

Once you register you will be emailed a Zoom link to join the sessions.

💡 Session Breakdown

Sessions run the following two Wednesday evenings from 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. Mountain Time

​​November 12th ​​Want to know how to capitalize on the five things savvy investors and mentors care about the most?th

November 26th

​​Want to craft a two to five-minute pitch that captures and keeps your audience's attention?​​Then join us for this session where Jason will share the critical components of a successful pitch, different pitch formats, how to differentiate yourself from the competition and how to avoid the two mistakes that can kill the interest you create.

Facilitator

Jason Bacon

Jason is the founder of Sunstone Strategic, which operates with the mission of guiding entrepreneurs forward in their business. His entire professional career has been focused on supporting entrepreneurs, first in the finance industry where he worked for numerous financial institutions and support organizations. This included running the Chinook Entrepreneur Challenge, which at the time was the largest business planning competition in Western Canada. In his last role with ATB Financial he worked as the Senior Manager of Entrepreneur Education, where his team delivered the ATB X Growth Accelerator and other entrepreneur education offerings.

For the past five years he has been a full time entrepreneur, working with support organizations nationwide and helping thousands of business owners all across Canada. He has particular expertise in business planning, strategy, entrepreneur mindset and is also the author of “Entrepreneur-ish” which provides lessons in entrepreneurship from historical stories of vikings, pirates and samurai."

​​These sessions are brought to you by Alberta Innovates and Alberta's eight Regional Innovation Networks:

• ​​APEX: Southeast Alberta
• ​​CARIN: Central Alberta
• CIC: Calgary Innovation Coalition
• ​​ECARIN: East Central Alberta
• ERIN: Edmonton Regional Innovation Network
• ​​Innovate Northwest RIN Northwest Alberta
• ​​RINSA: Southwest Alberta
• ​​WBRIN: North East Alberta