Reflecting on the pitch presentation, I think the pitch helped us receive feedback at an early and crucial stage as well as push us to converge on a solution. I feel our creative solution was a bit farther from the original problem statement, so I think the chance to revise was helpful. I think the feedback that we got from the panelists were helpful in narrowing our customer (which is an insight we didn’t spot since we included many customers in our brainstorming), as well as ways we could push our pitch slides to a higher fidelity just through graphical elements, which I learned that investors often notice first. Finally, I feel the public speaking aspect of the pitch was good practice for learning what role product managers need to play in the lifecycle of a product.
