[REVIEW] Carla, thank you for this fantastic pair of pitches. You’ve presented a commendable non-profit venture that addresses what you’ve expressed to be a true need. Your videos are professional and engaging, and most importantly to me, your venture feels highly attainable. I love that you were able to include actual scientists as part of your website, as it adds a real legitimacy to what you are proposing. My main question that I’m left with after watching your longer venture pitch is: what will your online platform look like? I feel like that is the biggest aspect that is missing – I want to see how your platform would function. I know time is a constraint with these pitches, but the beginning of your venture pitch covers material that was already expressed in your elevator pitch, so cutting some redundancies could have made that possible perhaps. I also think that the language issue in Africa will end up requiring a lot of effort to address. You mentioned it briefly, but I think it will be a much bigger hurdle to overcome in order to see widespread acceptance of the platform. All in all though, I am highly supportive of this venture. Were you to commit time and energy to making this real, I would honestly consider putting real money (or time, as a volunteer) behind this venture.
[REVIEW] Carla, thank you for this fanta…
5 Apr
Thanks James! You offer some really good constructive feedback and advice and I appreciate you taking the time to do so. You are absolutely right in saying that language will be an issue and so too will culture (I think there will some cases where it will be quite hard to also break the gender barrier). For now I think we need to start small and focus on working with only a few countries and schools until we have a more sound foundation in place for the venture. Once teething problems are sorted out only then do I think it would be wise to venture out into countries where we know we will have significant challenges.
