Hey, founders: Here’s a chance to practice pitching a venture capitalist

Brooklyn’s top venture capitalist will host an open call for pitches next Monday at Brooklyn Law School.
The event, called #notapitch, is a semi-regular pitch night in which startuppers have two minutes to pitch their idea to Charlie O’Donnell, founder of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, who has questions and advice on how to improve or what to focus on in return. It’s not a pitch (#notapitch) because O’Donnell is not going to invest in anyone at the event. But he might ask for a follow-up meeting for ideas he was particularly interested in.
“I probably take anywhere from two to four follow-ups from this. And that’s very high for an event. As a normal pitch event you don’t get a 40 percent hit rate,” O’Donnell explained to us at the last #notapitch, in September. “I’ve actually funded a person from this. I met her and I was like, ‘You’re sharp.'”
Anyone is welcome to pitch at the event, which is free and open to the public with a RSVP. If you’re interested in pitching, there’s an option on the sign-up page; but after those are through, O’Donnell takes pitches from people who haven’t signed up, too.
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We detailed three big takeaways from the September #notapitch event here.