What's the best startup pitch competition to enter?

Abhinauv MBA Enterprise Tech Sales

July 28th, 2016

I am part of the founding team of a progressive internet media publisher startup in the East Bay. We have bootstrapped the company for the past two years and have good traffic now. We're looking to raise funding rounds, but concurrently looking for ways to judge public opinion of our pitch. Would it be a bad idea to pitch at one of the countless meetup pitches if we're ideally looking for somewhere between a seed and Series A type round?

Kristina Momchilova Senior Media Analyst at iCrossing

July 28th, 2016

Competitions can be good for creating a little buzz around your company in the start up community and some of the judges or people in the audience could be potential investors. I did a bunch of college competitions as a part of a start up and we got validation, constructive feedback, and a little money out of it, which was great. We refined our pitch and were better prepared to answer the reoccurring questions and concerns we encountered. If you have the time for it, I would definitely recommend it.

I just did a quick search and found this

http://grasshopper.com/blog/startup-competition-guide/

See what is applicable to you and go for it.