Elevator Pitches: Rule 1, Don’t Hang Your Pet By Its Tail, Even On TechCrunch!
July 19th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Entrepreneurship, Robots, Silicon Valley, Social Media, Startups, Video, Web
TechCrunch has set up a community video project called Elevator Pitches. Limited to 60 seconds these pitches are voted up or down by the community.
It looks like a fun way to get entrepreneurs to hone their pitching skills and get some coverage. Below is the video from Ugobe’s CEO, Bob Christopher – it’s an interesting take on the whole elevator pitch by a company with a great product and by the sounds of it, great vision.
But Bob – holding the Pleo by the tail until it squeals breaks the first rule of pitching — keep the focus on your venture and its value proposition…
July 19th, 2008 at 9:33 am
I had a laugh when I saw this one.. yes, kind of distracting, but on the other hand attention grabbing.
It’s one of the most popular pitches on the site so far
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July 20th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Don’t know why he did so much talking upfront, he just had to demo the product with a quick intro to explain what it’s purpose was and indicate that it’s fairly sophisticated technology, both in hardware and software, and the basis for future products.
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