AlligatorZone®, where kids meet cool startups, primarily offers a family-friendly startup event program, which is essentially a product show-and-tell by the startup founders themselves to inspire kids (ages 7-17).
Since 2013, at AlligatorZone events, founders of some 180 startups have showcased their work to kids (ages 7-17) in 20 cities from South Florida to Silicon Valley. AlligatorZone events require our young audience members to be accompanied by at least one parent or guardian, making these a one-of-a-kind uplifting gathering of the community. Lately, we record these sessions for eventual broadcast on Community TV channels across smaller cities and towns to help inspire more kids and their families.
In freewheeling conversations with founders, kids and teens at AlligatorZone’s events enjoy a peek into the future that the entrepreneurs are creating. Along the way, startup founders gain further clarity in their storytelling. The experience has helped many startup founders refine their messaging for a broader audience besides investors. AlligatorZone has a two-way impact.
While the kids indisputably get inspired, I have also seen founders pleasantly surprised by the unbiased, unfiltered, and eye-opening perspectives and suggestions coming from the young digital natives, and lately the young AI natives, in the audience. The setting at AlligatorZone gives founders a way to learn how the next generation of creators and consumers think.
Each AlligatorZone event is meticulously curated and crafted and we help the founders prepare for and get the most out of the unique and exhilarating experience of presenting to the young curious minds.
Here’s more on why startup founders present at AlligatorZone: https://alligatorzone.org/entrepreneurs/why-present, and other links to provide more perspective:
- Testimonials: What They Say – AlligatorZone®.
- What Grabit founder Harsha Prahlad, Ph.D. had to say after he presented the AlligatorZone in Santa Clara Northside Library: https://youtu.be/NOFw5XUE0do.
- Pictures from past events (link: https://www.facebook.com/alligatorzone.org/photos_albums)
- Post-event videos at https://alligatorzone.org/events/videos
- Media coverage for AlligatorZone®: https://alligatorzone.org/press
- A humorous blog post by ThePricerie’s founder: ‘The Toughest Audience to Pitch is not VCs’ (Link: https://thepricerie.tumblr.com/post/112926353145/the-toughest-audience-to-pitch-its-not-vcs).
For startup founders interested in presenting your creation at AlligatorZone, please complete the form at How To Present – AlligatorZone®.
AlligatorZone® LLC is a learning and development company that creates powerful educational programs for lifelong learners through robust storytelling. Stories tend to stick. For information on our family-friendly startup event program, for licensing our curricula, for specialized training programs, or for our future of work educational programs, please contact us.
