Pitches!

[elfs]

Practicing my Start-Up Pitch Mad-Lib:

My company, [redacted], is developing a media-query-ready web platform to help the sexually adventurous find exactly the advice they're looking for with a tested reputation-management system that rewards the knoweldgeable, hides the willfully ignorant, and even verifies bragging rights for those that want them.

My company, [redacted], is developing a media-query-ready web solution that gives authors a drop-in e-commerce solution for managing, deploying, displaying, and publishing their works, for pay, on a variety of web-enabled platforms, using a dynamic 'chinese menu' design system to give authors total freedom for their default presentation, and giving readers total control over their reading experience. We provide readers with aggregation services that exploit third-party printing platforms to produce press-ready one-off short-story collections suitable for bookshelves and libraries, while exploiting modern mobile platform capabilties to avoid classic problems of viewport clutter and distraction during the reading experience.

My company, [redacted], is publishing a consumer-facing website designed to lead people through the process of improving their raw willpower and attention span by bringing of graded, experientially suitable interval training to the user's mobile platform.

Comments

[codeamazon.livejournal.com]

Who is the pitch to? Very tech-savvy funders, then maybe. Anyone else -- way too buzzwordy. The average potential customer's eyes glazed over on the first sentence.

Lead with what you're doing to make their lives better, not how you're doing it. Most people don't care how until they're hooked on the idea. THEN they want the how to see if you really CAN do it.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

These are pitches as worded for investors. It's a game called "Angel Elevator Mad-Libs:" If you could get paid to do whatever outrageous projects you have waiting on your hard-drive, how would you pitch it to an investor during an elevator ride?