Entrepreneurs at Comedy Clubs? It's Happening
“Hey, how’s everybody doing tonight? Great, great. You, in the front row, did you hear the one about the Greek and the Italian? How about the one about the on-demand cloud call center? See, five years ago, some college buddies and I started a Voice over IP consulting company and…” If you think that comedy clubs and entrepreneurial pitches don’t mix, 40-year-old Ami Kassar is proving you wrong twice a month, in both Philadelphia and LA, where since earlier this year, his events business has been attracting enough entrepreneurs, service professionals, and investors to fill the small clubs it rents. There is no stand-up comedy involved (except in my imagination). Rather, for between 90 seconds and a few minutes, budding and established entrepreneurs take the stage during open-mike nights to share their ideas, hoping to improve on them with the audience’s participation as well, sometimes, to entice an investor seated in the crowd.
