Pitching your startup ideas effectively is a crucial skill that will help you acquire financing, customers, partners, and top talent. In just three hours, the Startup Pitch Bootcamp will help you improve your pitching skills and recruit potential co-founders. This intensive, collaborative workshop begins with talks by leading startup Founders designed to help you understand the key ingredients of a successful pitch. Then, you can apply that learning and pitch to both experts and peers to receive constructive feedback in a relaxed setting. Join us for a fun evening!Goal:Pitch your startup ideas like a pro.Date:Friday, October 26, 2012, at 06:30 PMLocation:IBBT Brussels, Pleinlaan 9, EtterbeekSpeakersSacha Vekeman, Founding Partner, Camargus InternationalSacha Vekeman has a huge amount of technology entrepreneurship experience – first working in high-growth startups, then launching one of his own. Sacha started Mobiya Ltd., a mobile classified advertising platform in 2005 – and took it from concept to profitability and then to exit. His primary roles were strategy, fundraising, M&A and business development. In an advisory role, Sacha is involved with a lot of cloud and mobile companies: Core Consultancy Limited, Planzone, Mobila, Oxopia, Nomadesk and Telemak.Pieter Dubois, Founder, PaycentoPieter is the Founder of Paycento, a micropayment platform that allows consumers to pay for content through their social networks. He also is a graduate of the Founder Institute, where Paycento has been selected as top 2011 Graduate. Pieter has 15 years of experience in IT and finance while working for IBM in Belgium and Switzerland as well as working for BNP Paribas Fortis.Adeo Ressi, CEO, TheFunded.comAdeo Ressi is Founding Member of TheFunded.com, an online community of 17,000 CEOs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide. Adeo also runs the Founder Institute, a mentoring program that helps entrepreneurs launch hundreds of world-class companies each year. The Institute is the eighth start-up that Adeo has founded or built, four of which were acquired and three of which are still operating.