Founders Live Fort Lauderdale Announces its Spring 2024 Kick-Off Women’s Month pitch event
The Founders Live Spring 2024 Kick-Off Women’s Month pitch event takes place on March 6th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at JT Workspace located at 1123 s 21st Ave Hollywood, FL 33020.
Admission is free.
Founders Live is a unique opportunity for founders to get live customer feedback in a competitive environment by pitching directly to the audience. In a unique 99-second pitch competition format, audience members select the event winner after listening to each pitch and questioning the founders for 4 minutes of Q&A. The event-winning team will also receive the Founders Live Professional Boost membership with over $900,000 in cash savings on over 90+ essential apps and services for startups, and qualify for an appearance in the Founders Live Prime Time regional qualifiers, with a chance to advance to our Prime Time global event in the fall
The Spring 2024 Kick-Off Women’s Month Fort Lauderdale Founders Live event will also feature a special presentation by Kwamara Thompson, Founders Live Miami City Leader, and cofounder of JT Workspace.
“We’re proud to support Founders Live Miami City Leader Kwamara Thompson during Women’s Month by hosting our event at her new workspace, JT Workspace.” states Marc Lissade, Founders Live Fort Lauderdale City Leader.
Founders and attendees can register for free
About Founders Live
Founders Live is a community and media channel created to inspire, educate, entertain, and connect entrepreneurs around the world.
About Kwamara Thompson
As a social entrepreneur, Kwamara Thompson has always been fighting for positive change by leading with her passion for education. As an accomplished speaker, consultant, educator, and activist, Kwamara has started multiple ventures throughout her career to help people improve their lives, to help organizations become equity and empathy focused, and to help alleviate the structures of systemic racism.
As an angel and seed investor, Kwamara and her umbrella company, TEC, LLC have helped to invest millions of dollars in small businesses across the country and have recently launched a fund.
As a philanthropist, Kwamara has helped to raise and give out hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships to students across the country.
About Marc Lissade
Marc Lissade is an entrepreneurial ecosystem builder and the Director of Startup Broward, StartupGrind Fort Lauderdale as well as FoundersBoost South Florida. He is also the Founders Live Fort Lauderdale City Leader.
Marc is a veteran organizer of multiple Techstars Startup Weekends, Techstars Startup Week, and Global Entrepreneurship Week events among many other entrepreneurial support activities. Having explored many startup ecosystems, Marc believes that true innovation knows no geographical or financial bounds and has been hard at work helping build his local ecosystem.
As an innovation activist, Marc believes that innovation is a human right that has been historically overlooked. His new book on innovation is due out in Spring 2024.
