Break Point, a business reality TV series, will debut in Dominica on Marpin Channel 5 on Sunday, April 14.
The series is an initiative of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export).
The 12 episode series highlights the journey of dedicated regional businesses and entrepreneurs as they vie to become one of the 12 finalists to travel to London to make a final pitch to a panel of investors, venture capitalists and distributors.
The series seeks to empower Caribbean businesses to take on European markets and introduces them to alternative funding sources such as private investors in the form of venture capitalists and Angel investors.
Thirty firms were shortlisted out of 60 applicants based on evaluation criteria that spoke to demand, innovation, brand strength, Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) application, speed to market, and management strength. These firms then went through Break Point preparatory sessions in Barbados with coaches/mentors, mostly affiliated with the UWI Cave Hill School of Business. They were provided with tools to improve their presentation skills and received feedback on how to enhance their business pitches and presentations.
The series follows the journey of these thirty firms from their initial preparatory sessions at the UWI Cave Hill School of Business, to their regional pitches, the subsequent selection process that followed, all the way to the 12 firms’ final pitches in London.
The series is being aired under the 10th European Development Fund’s (EDF) Regional Private Sector Development Programme, in partnership with the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) and the United Kingdom Trade and Investment (UKTI) and will be shown on national and regional television stations starting in April 2013.
It will air on Marpin 2K4 on Sunday evenings at 7pm and repeated on Mondays at 7 pm on channel 5 before the local news.
Break Point can also be streamed online at http://www.tdnentertainment.net at the above times.
interesting
This actually sounds good