# Pitch competition

Concept · [Programs and community](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/community)

Also called: pitch contest, business plan competition, startup competition, pitch comp

An event where [founders](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) present their companies to judges, who pick winners. Prizes are often cash with no [equity](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/equity) attached, and the practice and the audience are worth as much as the prize.

**For example:** A student team enters a statewide pitch competition, [rewrites](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/technical-debt) its [pitch](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/pitch-deck) four times with a coach and meets its first investor in the audience.

## Connects to (11)

- [Pitch deck](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/pitch-deck): A short slide presentation that explains your business to investors: the problem, your solution, who it is for, your traction and what you…
- [Demo day](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/demo-day): The event at the end of an accelerator where each company in the cohort presents to an audience of investors.
- [Non-dilutive funding](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/non-dilutive-funding): Money a company receives without giving up any ownership.
- [Entrepreneur's Cup](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/entrepreneurs-cup): A statewide business plan competition for Oklahoma college students, run by i2E.
- [Product Pitch Night](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/product-pitch-night): A Build in Tulsa program for founders who make physical products.
- [University of Tulsa Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/university-of-tulsa-cie): The University of Tulsa's center for student and faculty entrepreneurship.
- [Riata Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/riata-center): Oklahoma State University's entrepreneurship center, part of its business school in Stillwater.
- [Tulsa StartUp Series](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-startup-series): A startup competition that Tulsa Community College and the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation ran in the 2010s, with themed pitch rounds that…
- [Historic Big 10 Ballroom](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/historic-10-ballroom): A historic music venue in Tulsa that was restored by the nonprofit A Pocket Full Of Hope.
- [Oral Roberts University](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/oral-roberts-university): A Christian liberal arts university in Tulsa with undergraduate, graduate and online programs, including degrees in computer science and…
- [Pitches, Pizza & Pints](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/pitches-pizza-pints): The Verge OKC's monthly founder event in Oklahoma City, where entrepreneurs pitch what they are building and an experienced founder shares…

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