John Jackovin is the founder and CEO of Des Moines-based Bawte, an app that allows users to tag purchased items and receive product manuals or service information. In July, Bawte was accepted to Techstars Boulder‘s 90-day accelerator. Jackovin’s been writing about his experiences in Techstars and his company’s growth.
Thanks to Jackovin for letting us share his posts, which originally appeared on Medium. Read Jackovin’s previous posts here.
With less than two weeks until demo day I have to do something I am pretty bad at… memorization.
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My brain works a certain way, I guess all brains work a certain way, duh. Better put, my brain works in a way that makes it difficult for me to memorize words that I see and read. I think this has always been an issue for me. I remember reading for school and then having no idea what I just read. My brain would go into some other dimension and I would realize the last 30 minutes I was thinking about anything other than what I was reading.
My brain, on the other hand, can remember the words from almost any song that I have liked in the past 30 years. And I can remember/memorize the words spoken in a conversation, which helps me in arguments. ☺ So my brain works, or at least that is my theory up until this point, but that doesn’t help me much when trying to memorize a speech… and that is exactly what I have to do.
We have exactly 11 days until Demo Day here at Techstars and I have gotten my pitch (with extensive help from Nicole) to a point where I can focus on memorization and delivery. As I sit here and look at the paper, my mind registers the words, but they feel like glancing blows in a fight… they just bounce off my brain. Nothing hits hard enough to stick.
