Life's a Pitch: Rosslyn's UberOffices Growing in Reputation, Membership
Office-sharing venture caters to tech startups, looks to expand by year's end.
A little after 10 a.m. Wednesday at UberOffices in Rosslyn — it's Pitch Day at the office-sharing startup, which even at less than 4 months old is already developing the reputation for being one of the coolest new spaces in the Washington metro region. Every startup hub does it a little differently. Uber co-founder Raymond Rahbar says startups traditionally get four to seven minutes to make their pitch. But at UberOffices, they get 30 minutes. Typically, two to five businesses — some are members, some aren't — get face time with a small room full of investors. They get instant feedback and, if they're lucky, they eventually get the capital they need to move their company into its next phase. Sometimes, they may get a lead on another source…
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