{"id":73241,"date":"2018-01-18T16:36:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T02:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=73241"},"modified":"2019-03-19T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T21:07:09","slug":"uh-pitch-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/18\/uh-pitch-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling all pitches for student entrepreneurship contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-business-pitch-contest-header.jpg\" alt=\"A banner with the words Calling All Pitches\" width=\"676\" height=\"231\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-73271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-business-pitch-contest-header.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-business-pitch-contest-header-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Calling all University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> student entrepreneurs: Do you have a great business startup idea? Share it and you could win $250 at the first ever <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Pitch Party on Wednesday, January 24, 4&#8211;6 p.m. at the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Campus Center courtyard. There will be food, a <abbr title=\"disc jockey\">DJ<\/abbr> and giveaways, while supplies last.<\/p>\n<p>Aspiring <abbr>东精影业<\/abbrv> entrepreneurs will have 60 seconds to pitch and convince the live audience to support their new venture. Audience members will have the chance to join the action and support their favorite venture by voting with &ldquo;PACE Bucks.&rdquo; The student entrepreneur who raises the most money wins!<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Pitch Party is sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/pace.shidler.hawaii.edu\/\">Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/shidler.hawaii.edu\/\">Shidler College of Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free, but participants must pre-register at <a href=\"http:\/\/pace.shidler.hawaii.edu\/bpc\">Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship website<\/a> by noon on Tuesday, January 23.<\/p>\n<p>This event will also kick off the 18th annual <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Business Plan Competition, sponsored by <abbr title=\"Hawaiian Electric Industries\">HEI<\/abbr> Charitable Foundation and the Hawaiian Electric Companies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspiring UH entrepreneurs can pitch their startup idea at the first ever Pitch Party on January 24 at <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa&#8217;s Campus Center courtyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[734,425,146,9],"class_list":["post-73241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-pacific-asian-center-for-entrepreneurship","tag-shidler-college-of-business","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73241"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73353,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73241\/revisions\/73353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}