The workshop provided its participants with key knowledge to improve their business presentations.

With the participation of forty entrepreneurs, the ''Elevator Pitch'' workshop was recently held, an instance generated by the ULS Entrepreneurship Office and CORFO Coquimbo Region, within the framework of the StartUp Phase Zero program and in line with the ''Development Program of the Innovative Entrepreneurship Ecosystem of the Coquimbo Region.

The activity, led by Héctor Sepúlveda Velásquez, creator and Head Coach of the ''Power Pitch Method'', was aimed at higher education students from the region, in order to train the participants in the preparation of an appropriate pitch ( script) to explain your business ideas to an investor in record time.

Currently, society is in constant movement, worshiping time and efficiency, which is why for an entrepreneur seeking to promote his product or service, being able to create a clear, rational and concise summary of a business project It is vital, in addition to making optimal use of time. Under this need, Héctor Sepúlveda created the ''Power Pitch Method'', in order to teach people various techniques for constructing a Pitch script (speech), with skills brought from other areas of knowledge such as the performing arts. , among other. 

For Sepúlveda, learning to write a good script by entrepreneurs is essential, since the first meetings are essential for the success of their purposes. ''Young people at this stage are testing their new ideas, they are testing whether they are capable of being entrepreneurs and the issue of presenting your offer is usually the last stage of the development of a value creation and facing early with a methodology that helps them put together "This offer is quite good at this stage, since they have a lot of time in life to improve," he specified. 

On this day, participants learned how the ''Power Pitch Method'' methodology can help create a presentation accurately and in a limited time. Within this session, topics such as logic, strategy, among other subjects were discussed. In addition, the participants were taught a way to create a script based on six steps belonging to the philosophy of this method.

The director of CORFO Coquimbo Region, Andrés Sánchez Araya, pointed out that this workshop is an opportunity for young entrepreneurs to expand their knowledge, thanks to financing from the Government of Chile. ''It is important to have training, to be able to perfect oneself and after that comes a phase in which incentives from the State can be given, so that they can be entrepreneurs and thus achieve the final objective,'' he argued.

This is the case of Oscar Cristi, who indicated that this workshop was a very beneficial and valuable experience, not only for entrepreneurs, but also for any professional. ''I thank the University for giving us the opportunity to learn something new, I feel very good and I believe that we will be able to give value to our idea and now continue working intensely so that everything turns out well,'' he said.