A few weeks back we launched Elevator Pitches, our community video project that allows entrepreneurs to pitch their startups through 60 second YouTube videos. Since then we’ve received a number of pitches covering everything from a fandom portal to a site focusing on group based text messaging.
Above, we’ve embedded the most popular of the videos submitted this week. If you don’t like it, don’t blame us (it was voted on by the community). This week’s runner up is Bars For Us, a tool to help you find local bars. Their video, as well as others, can be found on Elevator Pitches.
i’m no rocket surgeon…but the length on that YouTube video says 1 minute and 11 seconds
Lawrence – In the past we’ve been a little lax on video length, but we’re going to be stricter moving forward.
Taking a deep breath…Here we go
“We will change the world with a few animated avatars and backgrounds of the real world. We have a handful of developers working on this 24/7 and we need to make sure to have something to show before X. Remember it’s not about the quality it’s about timing. What good is it to develop a product that is late for the market? We already have Y millions invested in us so we need to show that we have something before X. Trust me I made my 1 million during the bubble in the 90’s. I know what i’m talking about.”
Question 1: How exactly are we going to make money on this?
“X who pretty much do the same thing sold for Y millions. Doh!”
In my humble opinion we should be given back the 30+ positive votes we lost when your service went down…
Wow, that’s really amazing. Truly.
TL – http://offur.co...rThanTechCrunch
could have at least gave a link to the site in the post.
i actually came from my feedreader to say the same thing.
(i know! all the way from my feedreader!)
Glad to see Bars For Us link on TechCrunch {seesmic_video:{”url_thumbnail”:{”value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/rYlEOR26wG_th1.jpg”}”title”:{”value”:”Glad to see Bars For Us link on TechCrunch ”}”videoUri”:{”value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/qiJAMEljnG”}}}
Quick side note… One needn’t “meet up” with Wayne Sutton (or anyone else for that matter) to “get your company submitted to CrunchBase”. It’s an open Wiki moderated by TC staff that anyone can supply company information to… so that was a pretty lame thing to say.
Jesus, that doesn’t sound rehearsed at all. That guy seemed like he was about to melt down while trying to remember what his idea was.
And another thing… monetize via advertising? Holy shit that’s original. Where do I send the check?
hey….
eric/guys… if you really want to make the comments/ratings useful, there should be a method of allowing us to see exactly who the voting/rating guys are…
i don’t give a damn about what some 12 year old might say, i might really care about someone who’s the CEO of a web startup that might be a partner to my idea…
peace
Hi,
I’m Lorenz, the guy talking in the above video.
Thanks a lot to all TechCrunch readers for voting for us. Please sign up for a beta at http://www.ilovephotos.com. You can send me any feedback you have directly to lorenz [at] bluelavatech.com. We’ll be pushing out accounts throughout August.
I’ll be at the TechCrunch August Capital party next Friday if anyone wants to say hi.
Lorenz Sell
CEO, bluelavatech.com / ilovephotos.com
I love photos? I hate your video. God, remove immediately, if you ever hope to see a dime…!
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It seems 90% of web 2.0 startups focus on the same boring shit …
i just dont’ understand why people don’t try to innovate in other spaces instead of just “whats hot” which is web 2.0
Psyche of an investor –chase whatever makes money. Psyche of a start-up –get money from investors. Psyche of a poor man –do what’s nobody is interested in.
Not to say I disagree with the poor man.
You’re better off taking your video pitch to Vator.TV — it’s a much better site than Techcrunch!
Elevator Pitches is a very good opportunity for us to allow people know what we offer. I hope if Elevator Pitches gets promoted more often in Techcrunch itself, maybe put a small banner or something.
@Dick: Not sure how you can bash an idea for having an advertising-based business model. I Love Photos seems to be innovating in their product, not their business model, and that’s 100% the way to go.
They’re doing innovative work in an area with real pain for people – “I have all these photos on my computer and I never actually LOOK at them because it’s such a hassle”.
To the I Love Photos team, good luck with it guys. Have a great launch and ignore all the Dicks out there.
Aaron,
The unintended or intended double entente in your last sentence made me chuckle. The ad based business models are only just starting to get milked (it is only just getting to mobile devices) there are billions ready to be made for ads served around useful services. I also wish the I Love Photos guys success in their endeavor.
Elevator Pitches is a hot topic here in my school. A lot of my schoolmates are into it.
BTW, the video above is nice..just nice.
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better off taking your video pitch to Vator.TV — it’s a much better site than Techcrunch!
A lot of my schoolmates are into it.
Some interesting pitches for start ups, it would be good to know how many get off the ground.