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By: Age CB

Age CB — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:28:17 +0000

I’d personall like a RSS feed for new pitches…

By: Gubbi

Gubbi — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:00:26 +0000

+1 for having BeFuncky’s cartoonizing effect.

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Elevator Pitches, Now Ready For Your Uploads « Our Philosophy — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:32:45 +0000

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By: Murshed

Murshed — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:12:06 +0000

moderating the files might add some delay to the process. why not allowing all videos to be displayed automatically and monitor them later on? if you find out that most videos don’t fit, then go back to moderating them before displaying.

i am saying that because i added a video very early when the site was first announced and till today its not displayed.

By: Prashant

Prashant — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:49:33 +0000

A good place to showcase one’s startup…
But i believe that a lot can be added to the current situation to make it a better place to showcase startups

By: Steve A.

Steve A. — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:21:47 +0000

I have to ask, was this site created so to add more advertising space or
to provide information?

Also a tag module to find videos by keywords would be nice.

By: James Blum

James Blum — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:15:08 +0000

Investors buy management at least as much as the idea – this is good stuff.

(and if you can’t explain what you do in a minute or two – don’t bother).

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:41:29 +0000

You should take that cartoonizing effect off of all of them – it’s really distracting…and makes it hard to concentrate on what they’re saying.

By: Markus

Markus — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:18:44 +0000

I like the idea myself (although it’s not that original, it does have the benefit of Techcrunch’s exposure).

But, SmugMug is certainly not a startup. It was launched 6(!) years ago and is hugely successful and profitable.

I mean, they’re fantastic and all but they don’t need (or deserve) the added exposure, so why not let a real start-up get some coverage?

Their model was revolutionary 3 years ago, but today if you tried to pitch anyone with a photo sharing site you’d get laughed out of the room.

Never mind that, they use Comic Sans in their logotype! WTF!?

By: Jeff Bezon

Jeff Bezon — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:09:51 +0000

If you like listening to pitches, and getting involved in entrepreneurism, you might want to check this out… some great info.. http://www.read...ex.php?RTA=web2

By: Joe Bowers

Joe Bowers — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:54:55 +0000

Wow you guys are really struggling to keep the facade up.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:45:12 +0000

Art of the Pitch? Gosh that sounds awfully pretentious. So it’s to judge pitch? Sorry Pitch. Sounds like a really ham-bone idea if you ask me. Sounds even more like the TV show Dragon’s Den in the UK. Seen it Erick? I bet you have. I bet you loved that idea!

Do they get points for wearing pretentious British style glasses like you Erick? Where do we Brits upload our Pitches too? We don’t have elevators, just lifts. But I’m sure you know that already don’t you?

Total rip-off Erick!!! Almost as lame as your Google OS article. That will live in my memory for years. What a howler!

By: COP

COP — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:37:16 +0000

U r TechCrunch so you can afford a oopps.. and be on TechCrunch again.. BUT those starts up out there… a lesson learn.. u only get to be on TechCrunch ONCE in ur lifetime.. DONT FUCKING BLOW IT… WORK HARD!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:28:27 +0000

“CEOs need to be good communicators and sell their ideas.”

Does this mean uploaders can’t simply hire a professional or good looking presenter and have them appear in it?

That’s the first thing I would do if I were to take the site as adding value to my company. I’d be hitting craigslist for somebody hot to read the cue cards.
That’s just me though.

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:18:47 +0000

@3, this site is about the Art of the Pitch. CEOs need to be good communicators and sell their ideas. You can tell a lot about a person by how they present themselves.

There may be room for sildeware and screen casts in the future. But we are interested in the people as much as their ideas.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:18:32 +0000

Missing tags and search on the site,

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:10:08 +0000

@10, that’s not the flv encoding doing that. It’s not youtube’s fault.

How do you think all those videos made it on there before the launch.

They taped a bunch of CEOs at a conference in front of a set of double doors, then put a video filter on in final cut or premier, cartoonizing them before uploading it to youtube.

They probably did that because the lighting was most likely very bad, probably because it was badly planned and thought out. You can buy construction halogen lights at walmart for $30.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:07:08 +0000

This is a great site, with some interesting business ideas. I know these are only 30-60 second elevator pitches, but aren’t these people asking to get their ideas stolen?

By: Jacob Bijani

Jacob Bijani — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:03:19 +0000

Any chance of supporting something other than YouTube?

Maybe Vimeo? The pitches might be cool if they didn’t look like butt.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:47:24 +0000

http://pitches....m/pitch/8-ugobe

Are these supossed to be serious or are they intentionally humorous?

By: onur gunduz

onur gunduz — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:34:50 +0000

I couldn’t see any of the pitches because youtube is banned in my country Pitches on youtube are like pitches on nothing.

By: Aaronontheweb

Aaronontheweb — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:29:24 +0000

meGo = M-m-m-monster Fail.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:29:20 +0000

Oh, wait, I just noticed that this is Mike’s new website. Wow, you guys are spewing a website a minute on the Crunch network.

Some huge software company must have kicked the bucket and made all their stuff GPL. wheh.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:27:48 +0000

The website itself is a great idea. I think that whether or not it helps these people submitting vidoes is highly debatable.