TechCrunch UK is going to run a “Techcrunch Pitch!” contest for startups at the upcoming Future of Web Apps conference in London, and you’re invited. All you need to do is submit an entry, and we will choose the best three to come up on the stage at FOWA and pitch to an “American Idol” style panel consisting of Mike Butcher (Techcrunch UK), Ryan Carson (Carsonified), Kevin Rose (Digg) and a mystery guest, yet to be announced. The winner will get written about on TechCrunch. If you don’t have a company to pitch but want to come anyway, TechCrunch readers can get 15% off the event ticket using this promo code: “F0WA-tc”
So here’s how Techcrunch Pitch! @ FOWA will work:
You’ll need to shoot a 60 second video pitch and upload it to YouTube so that it appears on Techcrunch Elevator Pitches. In the video, tell us what your company does and how you plan to make money. Imagine you’re in an elevator and have only one chance to convince a potential backer that you deserve a follow-up meeting. Be sure to focus on your company’s big picture while avoiding too much detail about particular products. Please do not include any editing or graphic overlays – just a straight pitch from beginning to end. When you upload the video to YouTube, tag it with “tcpitch”, and then enter its information into our submission form. The deadline for submission is close of play Friday 3rd October.
When you’ve done all that, come back to this particular post on TechCrunch UK and leave a comment with a link to your pitch on Techcrunch Elevator Pitches so that we know who applied. All clear? Ok, go.
Is the mystery guest going to be Mark Zuckerberg by any chance?
Mike, what is the deadline for submission?
The deadline for submission is close of play Friday 3rd October.
Cheers
What do you get if you win?
Mike, we already have a pitch in Techcrunch Elevator Pitches:
http://pitches.techcrunch.com/pitch/54-erepublik
Do we need to do a new one to apply?
Scott beat me to it. And I won’t tell you who told me two days ago that Zuck will be there.
so, yeah… are you guys paying for airfare and all that for the people you choose? or are they going to pay their own way?
I’m working on my elevator pitch today… Hopefully I’ll have something up by tomorrow. Thanks.
For anyone looking for help with their business plan pitches we have plenty of articles, tips and advice available at: http://articles.bplans.co.uk/index.php/business-articles/financing-a-business/delivering-a-winning-business-plan-pitch/
Good luck with the pitch – hope to see you at the London event. Alan
infolock – Good question. No we’re not paying your airfare/costs. Hopefully the press you’ll get (from TechCrunch etc) from being selected to pitch to this panel – and possibly winning – is recompense enough, but that’s up to you, obviously. Good luck
alexis bonte – no, if that’s you’re entry, then that’s fine.
Mike – Do they have to be “unlaunched” startups or will you also consider UK startups already launched but just starting down the road to making money ?
Chris – Anything, just go for it.
@Mike: From your replies above just want to clarify that a non-existent start-up can apply. Mine is very much a concept that has been undergoing mainly research in to its business model.
iinclude.com – Dude – If I were you I’d do a video pitch – frankly you never know……
Erepublik application: http://pitches.techcrunch.com/pitch/54-erepublik
Mike,
How far out from a proto-type is too far ? 3/4 months ? to consider Pitching ?
Cuan – I cannot believe how people ask all these questions
. I just wish people would do a video and post it. Frankly, no-one knows. For all I know a great idea pitched at FOWA with nothing to show may end up being THE NEXT BIG THING. That’s the fun part about all this.
Here’s ours:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K38LbE0D8k0
We got rejected from pitches.techcrunch.com because of sound quality (birds singing, etc.)
Can we still enter for FOWA with this video? Or must I redo it without the birds?
Thanks!
I’d just like to clarify that if I ask too many questions I may get someone accusing me of being an idiot?
Anyway here’s our pitch, it;s taken us years to get this far and we think that our product is absolutely disruptive – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJTnhiLGbqc
Hi Everyone,
Working to create the actual prototype! Any feedback will be more than welcome!
Carlo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lvrEyXG8NA
Hello people – I know I said the deadline for submissions was Friday but we actually need them a bit sooner, so paste a link to a 1min video here by tonight (doesn’t have to be on TC pitch site, YouTube will do) and we’ll take a look. thanks!
Hi Mike,
Here’s my 1-minute:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8W8C1zNvc
I was planning to re-shoot in time for the Friday deadline but I see you need these tonight.
Cheers,
Chris
Hi Mike,
why the sudden change of deadline? (how about updating the original post?)
Mike,
As you suggested, just the YouTube link to my Twit Invite pitch. I will add another comment when it is added to the TechCrunch pitch site.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1t0lkKwodV8
Thanks
Ollie
Hi, here’s my pitch for my start-up called GameWeaver : http://pitches.techcrunch.com/pitch/146-gameweaver
Thanks
Chris
Here’s the BuzzPal pitch:
http://pitches.techcrunch.com/pitch/153-buzzpal-the-world-is-your-party-
(yes, with the hyphen on the end of the URL)
Here’s PhoneFromHere.com’s elevator pitch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EngX0tSjwDA
Hi Mike,
Here’s my pitch for my furniture template design web app.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YKV9ORSfRww
Cheers
Andrew
Mike, here is Veedow’s pitch.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pxMrrxQc9X8
FeedZa elevator pitch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua1Sy3UrtRE
http://www.feedza.com
Hi Mike,
as you moved the date forward, does that mean that any pitches uploaded today won’t be considered?
cheers,
Steve.
Hi Mike. Here is my elevator pitch for Nsyght.com.
Thanks for pulling this together
Geoffrey
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QwSeA5DnX2I
steve Cochrane – apologies for the rush, but please just have a crack at getting it in this morning. It’s only a 1 minute pitch to a web camera after-all – we are not looking for Citizen Kane here…
Entered ChannelFlip here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT0-9BDNI_8
aye will do
Here’s the pitch from the iPlatform team:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUlBrWlkeHI
Josh
One for the girls..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir7XUwoe_EI
better late than never…
the submission from the filemask guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha3SAovUS0Q
good luck to all.
Hi Mike,
Thanks for organising this.
Here’s the pitch for Localmouth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYuMYlp0m2Q
Hi Mike
Had planned on doing a video tomorrow – just posting an old one now given new deadline.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgdlCQOvRIM
Mike- here is a proper pitch -you can disregard the one posted at 3.45PM -
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wB3IjmhVoyM
thanks Alan
just noticed your post! Here is our pitch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENTGX3QZeFE
Here we go -
IGOpeople – a network for society
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=8xLIb-Y9jRw
I hope we’re not too late. We didn’t see the change of deadline …
Anyway, here it is : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCOl-eArqyU
OnlinePopstar – Where the X-Factor meets Karaoke Revolution…
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=49aSrGom16I
Hope we’re in time!
Hope it’s not too late, didn’t see the deadline change till just now.
Friendbinder.com – social network aggregator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHmNMkBHnog
Hi Mike,
Sorry for posting this so late but I didn’t see your updated deadline til this morning. I hope it’s ok to still go into the hat?
Cheers,
Sean
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=CG9PFOYI7Zs
iCard is THE way to exchange electronic business cards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZeZOWq95E8
Matt & Dan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGoVpVdFxGc
Hi Mike
We had already submitted an entry (by Alan above) but here is the official version.
Jason
Aarch, where is the video camera? I hope I can pitch my online business magazine for female internet heroes, http://www.thenextwomen.com, by submitting a great interview of SHE TV; it’s thenextwomen in the format of a tv programme:
http://www.blueshots.tv/Programmas/Programma.aspx?p=1
Also, in Dutch very good pitch about thenextwomen on Dutch radio (i am happy to translate it later!!), it starts 20.06 and a little bit, you hear me:
http://www.bnr.nl/static/jspx/play.jspx?datum=02/10/2008&tijd=20:06:00&lengte=15&titel=Titel