{"id":44252,"date":"2017-03-29T09:46:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T13:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=44252"},"modified":"2017-05-11T15:14:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:14:15","slug":"jim-treliving-and-bruce-croxon-return-to-judge-brocks-monster-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/03\/jim-treliving-and-bruce-croxon-return-to-judge-brocks-monster-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Treliving and Bruce Croxon return to judge Brock\u2019s Monster Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four student entrepreneurs from Brock University will have the chance to pitch their ideas to some big names in business next week.<\/p>\n<p>The Monster Pitch finalists will pitch their innovative products and services in four different industries \u2014 pet care, private aviation, real estate and socially responsible clothing \u2014 in a head to head competition for a funding and startup services package worth $15,000.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Brock Innovation Group, a Goodman School of Business student club, Monster Pitch is in its sixth year and is already sold out. The competition takes place at 1 p.m. Monday, April 3 at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre. It\u2019s organized in partnership with the Goodman School of Business, BioLinc and is sponsored by Spark Power Corp.<\/p>\n<p>The event features a returning celebrity judging panel: Jim Treliving, one of five judges on CBC\u2019s Dragons\u2019 Den and chairman and owner of Boston Pizza International Inc.; Bruce Croxon, co-host of BNN\u2019s The Disruptors and CEO of Round13; Deborah Rosati, corporate director and co-founder of Women Get On Board; and Jason Sparaga, co-founder and co-CEO of Spark Power Corp. and founder of Spara Capital Partners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong> Monster Pitch competition<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who:<\/strong> Jim Treliving, Bruce Croxon, Deborah Rosati, Jason Sparaga, student entrepreneurs<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Monday, April 3 from 1 to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four student entrepreneurs from Brock University will have the chance to pitch their ideas to some big names in business next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":38286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,39,3319,1,4],"tags":[592,5115,3946,1642,594,1641,1639,1638],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}