{"id":147,"date":"2013-06-11T11:02:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T18:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2013-06-11T11:09:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T18:09:54","slug":"what-a-tech-startup-can-learn-from-a-slam-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/what-a-tech-startup-can-learn-from-a-slam-poet","title":{"rendered":"What a Tech Startup can Learn from a Slam Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have three minutes at the podium to impress a panel of so-called &#8220;experts.&#8221; If they like you, you&#8217;re a rock star. If they don&#8217;t like you, you&#8217;re heading back to your day job.<\/p>\n<p>Silicon Valley calls this a &#8220;<a title=\"Startup Pitch Night\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startuppitchnight.com\/startuppitchnight\/\">pitch night<\/a>.&#8221; Slam poets call it &#8220;our job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Lit-Slam-SP2-postcard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148 aligncenter\" alt=\"Pitch workshop with Marty McConnell\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Lit-Slam-SP2-postcard-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Lit-Slam-SP2-postcard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Lit-Slam-SP2-postcard-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bicycle-comics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Lit-Slam-SP2-postcard.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bicycle Comics is a startup. The Lit Slam is a startup. Half the people we know work in startups. But most startups are <em>so<\/em> <a title=\"Five ways to screw up your startup's pitch | Ben Parr of cnet\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-33617_3-57481791-276\/five-ways-to-screw-up-your-startups-pitch\/\">bad at talking about themselves<\/a>. Whereas poets tend to be great at talking about themselves (for better or worse). Normally, when we bring a nationally-known poet to San Francisco for one of our <a title=\"The Lit Slam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelitslam.com\/\">monthly shows<\/a>, we try to arrange a writing or performance workshop for our community. This month, with Marty McConnell jetting in from Chicago, we wanted to try something different. On Sunday, June 16, we&#8217;re offering our first-ever performance workshop for startup founders: <a title=\"The Slam Poet Startup Pitch on Eventbrite\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slampoetstartuppitch.eventbrite.com\">The Slam Poet Startup Pitch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Marty McConnell's Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.martyoutloud.com\/\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=736475397&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D\">Marty McConnell<\/a>, <a title=\"Tatyana Brown on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tatyanabrown\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=19800272&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D\">Tatyana S Brown<\/a>, and <a title=\"The Lit Slam on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheLitSlam\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=325459064131059&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D\">The Lit Slam<\/a> proudly present a performance workshop for people who never expected to need such a thing: tomorrow&#8217;s technology CEOs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have three minutes at the podium to impress a panel of so-called &#8220;experts.&#8221; If they like you, you&#8217;re a rock star. 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