{"id":1035,"date":"2015-10-28T19:06:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T19:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2016-04-21T15:08:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T15:08:29","slug":"pitching-demo-day-zinc-competition-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/pitching-demo-day-zinc-competition-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitching at Zinc during Demo Day for Young Women Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open Hands Initiative is proud of all the women entrepreneurs who pitched their ideas at a Demo Day hosted by Zain at their Zinc Innovation Campus on October 24. The day\u00a0featured concise pitches from outstanding American and Jordanian women entrepreneurs who had just undergone a week-long bootcamp course on entrepreneurship. After hearing from experts on the nuts and bolts of running a startup, the women were ready to showcase their businesses on stage. Decks in hand, each one had the opportunity to pitch her company for the chance to win a $25,000 cash prize from Open Hands Initiative.
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Alexandra Weiner shares the story behind Free & For Sale, her startup based in Boulder, CO.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Emily Cubeisy of Silicon Badia judges the pitches attentively in the run up to a tough deliberation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tara Reed, founder of Kollecto and first place prize winner from the U.S., energized the room with her deck about growth in the online art market.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Privail’s founder, Anwaar Al-Zireeni, brought together Americans and Jordanians through her company’s vision to make disease detection available across the globe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Open Hands Initiative is proud of all the women entrepreneurs who pitched their ideas at a Demo Day hosted by Zain at their Zinc Innovation Campus on October 24. The day\u00a0featured concise pitches from outstanding American and Jordanian women entrepreneurs who had just undergone a week-long bootcamp course on entrepreneurship. After hearing from experts on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,95],"tags":[116,119,118,117],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jordan","category-womens-entrepreneurship","tag-demo-day","tag-pitch-competition","tag-zain","tag-zinc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}