One-day pitch training in Amsterdam for founders, accelerators and company teams.
Investors and customers sit through dozens of pitches. Good ones get heard. Great ones get remembered. We train you to be remembered.
A hands-on, interactive training that helped startups build confidence, own the stage and make a stronger impression when pitching.
“Great to see how quickly the whole cohort visibly improved.”“The workshop helped me pitch with more confidence and was a lot of fun.”“Thanks a lot Aren for your valuable inputs today! Learning from you is pleasure!”“From shaky knees to owning the stage.”Same method in all three. Built for programs, open to founders.
Join a group of up to twelve founders from different startups, at a location we host.
Accelerators, incubators and companies. We train your group of up to fifteen, at your location, tailored to where your founders or team are right now.
No program, no minimum. Take it apart, test it under pressure, and we watch you pitch live.
Not sure which one? Plan a quick call. No pitch needed, nothing owed.
CES ’23, Las Vegas. A brewery off the Strip. Halfway through the evening, a pitch competition in a room too loud to listen. Founder after founder fights to be heard, and fails.
Then a man climbs on stage and shouts: “Who likes avocados? Everybody scream: AVOCADO!”
The room screams it back. “Louder!” It gets louder.
He drops the mic and walks off grinning.
The next day his booth is mobbed. He’s selling an avocado tester.
One shot, one minute, no slides.
Four modules. The rest of the day you practice: you pitch before we teach anything, again before lunch, and once more at the end.
Film your pitch on your phone, one take, sixty seconds. Send it. Within 48 hours Aren and Jasper send back three notes: what to cut, what to keep, and where the room stops listening.
One knows how a stage works. One knows what is at stake when you are on it. One makes sure nothing gets in the way.
Voice, body, timing and how to hold a room when it turns against you. Founded a solar company and wrote a novel.
Co-founded and ran Braincreators for nine years, then led AI Salon. Has pitched to investors, enterprise buyers and full rooms. Knows the questions before they come.
Makes sure you only have to think about your sixty seconds. Ran People & Operations at Braincreators and organized AI Salon events for rooms of 100+. Spots what makes you shine before you do.
A seat in the Avocado Pitch open training is €750 excl. VAT, as a founding price. One-to-one coaching is €199 per hour excl. VAT, with no minimum. An in-house training for a program or a team is quoted in a short call, because the group size and the location differ every time.
One day, from 09:00 to 18:00, with four modules: Nerve, Story, Delivery and The Room. The rest of the day you practice: you pitch sixty seconds before we teach anything, again before lunch, and once more at the end. The first and the last round are filmed, so you can look back on the difference.
The training is in English, because most rooms in Amsterdam have founders from several countries. The trainers are Dutch and switch to Dutch for a one-to-one session or an in-house day for a Dutch team when that suits the group better.
Yes. The in-house training is built for that: up to fifteen founders, at your location, on a date you pick, usually in the weeks before demo day. Aren, Jasper and Sterre come to you for the whole day.
No. The whole day is built around a sixty-second pitch without slides. The investor you meet in a corridor has no screen, and a pitch that works without slides works even better with them.
Yes. Nerves are the first of the four modules: why your body treats a pitch like a threat, and how to put that to work. Then you practice it, pitching three times in one day in front of a room of founders. It is a pitch training for founders, not a public speaking course.
Yes. A competition is a few minutes in front of judges who have heard every other pitch that day, and the day is built for exactly that: one minute that the room can repeat, practiced out loud three times. With a competition date less than three weeks away, one-to-one coaching fits better, because the open training has no fixed calendar.
Film your pitch on your phone, one take, sixty seconds, and send it on WhatsApp or upload it. Within 48 hours Aren and Jasper send back three notes: what to cut, what to keep, and where the room stops listening. It is free and nothing else is attached to it.
Three people. Two trainers: Aren van Muijen, an actor, and Jasper Wognum, who co-founded and ran Braincreators for nine years and hosts AI Salon Amsterdam, so he has been on both sides of the table. Sterre Telman runs the day itself.
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