really need to build this into a pretty sizable entity. so the growth story and how you really differentiate in what i know specialty foods market, not my daw day-area but something i know pretty well, is a really tough category. so i d try to dig in a little bit of what you ve done to date, how you re really going to be able to cross the chasm. what i think i m hearing is you piqued interest enough i could hang out to see where it goes. how about you, michael? i love product and the presentation and kind of the same as mo, i really want to see more of the story, you re working full-time during that time? were you working part-time? and then how you re going to take it higher. all right, that s great. thank you both so much for bringing your idea here and your chocolate, very appreciated. and thank you guys for all your advice. and if any of you out there have a product or a service and want feedback from our elevator pitch panel on your chances on getting interested invest
2011. we have national and regional distribution with product placement in over 150 retail stores. we were seek an investment of $500,000 for facility, improvements, equipment, and marketing. in return, we re offering a 14% return on investment with a possible equity position. all right, wow. if it is any indication these people did not only take one bite bite, i ll get one in a sec, thank you, they were eating the whole thing the whole time. so mo, you re a venture capitalist, you listen to pitches all day long, how did they do? i think they did quite well, actually. it was tight, concise. you made your point very clearly. i have a handful of questions that i d ask. but i think, you know, you did what s really important in a pitch, which is encapsulate what it is that you do and what it is that s different about what you do succinctly, and also give people a chance to kind of touch and feel your product. obviously it s easier to do when
which he even opened a new front tonight, by going after not only his familiar target of undocumented immigration, but for the first time as president, indicating that he would support reducing legal immigration as well. if you look at the budget document that he put out the other day, in which he said that he wanted to increase defense spending by cutting domestic programs, which primarily aim at younger people, while completely exempting the entitlement programs for the elderly, which go more toward his constituency of older, and especially lower income whites, you have a coherent strategy here, john. that s the message for democrats. they are dealing with an opponent, an adversary who has a thee theory of the case, a coalition he s trying to build and an agenda that he s targeting toward them. that s the message i took out of his speech tonight. he knows where he is going, and the question is whether he can bring a majority of the country along with him. mo, to bring you in here,