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Startup Weekend Initial Pitches — 20% Has Legs, 80% Not So MuchMarch 22nd, 2008 at 7:32 pmSource:CenterNetworks
There will be another live video pitch session on Sunday at Noon Mountain Time. To follow the live sessions and the weekend’s content, check these resources: I’d prefer something like this… bring the community together on weekend #1, decide on initial ideas and break up into teams around the ideas. Take 2-3 weeks to strengthen the ideas and decide if there is any potential for an actual business behind the idea. Then bring the teams back together to present in front of the experts. With that said, here are the pitches that were presented and let me say that Guy was very direct with his responses. The pitches were created in a few hours and were presented in one minute or less so we have to cut them a bit of slack. The last idea - IMDB for podcasting - could be hot. No name provided - iPhone App The idea with this iPhone application is to build on top of Google Maps and show your friends current locations by attaching color coded dots on the map. If you select the open privacy settings, you would then be able to see anyone on the app. Justin from Web2Splash The first thing that startups do is nothing and then maybe later they create a splash page until they get out of the dungeon. With a few clicks we will create a splash page and forward any entered emails into the system. Guy: "are you pulling my leg or is this a real company" Dan from a "$10 billion company" Plastic molding companies — if your mold breaks, you can’t make product. There aren’t any good ways to track this. You don’t really know how many hits the mold has taken and how close it is to being down. We want to show and track this mold and the supplier will show how many times it’s been molded and how close we are to having to build a new one. They are trying to make the mold business more efficient. Guy: "Bubba and Junior are not going to use a Web app." Elijah of Hitsurance Not all organizations can budget the hardware to handle the traffic bursts. Hitsurance determines when a Web site is on the verge of failing. When that happens we provide multiple links to backup services that we can switch the site to immediately. Currently the service is free but in the future we will look at a per-year and a per-event fee. It’s a method of last resort. Guy: "The webmaster has to go to his or her boss. I am a real bozo and I know our site is going to crash so I want you to buy insurance should it go down. You should talk to Michael Arrington and make a strategic partnership that when a site is on techcrunch you can pay him for the service. It’s admitting I am a little clueless and you are stupid for not giving me budget." Elijah: "is the value prop not obvious?" Allen: apparently this isn’t to prevent the downtime but instead to put up a static page that links to older archived content and to offer a box to be notified when the live site is back up. Andy - IMDB for Podcasting Central repo for looking at podcasts from a person perspective. Allen: This could work. I could enter "Amber MacArthur" or "Robert Scoble" and find out what shows each has been on, watch any of them, etc. Guy: In a perfect world, I would come to your site and put in my name and find every podcast I’ve ever been on. Andy: You’d also be able to subscribe to the podcasts via itunes. Check out the printer we used for our business cards:
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This afternoon I sat in on a web video chat where individuals at 
