Re:Our experience with The Starbucks Pitch
by 3pt14159 on Thursday April 09, 2009 @07:21AM
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Love the starbucks idea. What my friends from U of Waterloo do is pitch the idea to a very open economics prof (L. Smith) that gives highly critical feedback (tone, speed, size of market place, range of execution).
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Having a private network of experienced people to give feedback in a sandbox environment is wonderful. High quality, specifically targeted feedback - it's a dream for a startup.
Unfortunately, not everyone will have that network to tap. Starbucks serves as a lower-quality, but still effective practice ground. The only catch is, critical feedback on tone, speed, etc. is going to come from your cofounders more than your audience.