On the final day of FOWA last week I realised that there must be lots of interesting startups and web apps wandering around in the form of delegates – people who didn’t get their moment on stage during the conference . So I Twittered that we’d hold an impromptu TechCrunch Pitch! event outside the MySpace bus at 3pm. Luckily, about 100 people turned up and we had, I think, 8 startups pitch in the end. The reason I’m vague on the number is that I was relying on my audio recording of the pitches to inform this post. But somewhere between then and leaving FOWA (straight after Live Diggnation) my podcast recorder went missing. So until I can get back to the Excel centre later this week, all we have to go on that the pitches happened are the below videos from some kind people. If you were one of the startups who pitched, then please leave a comment so I can get back to you. For those who weren’t there, we decided the winner of Mark Zuckerberg’s FOWA bag would be BookingBug (one of the gaggle of startups Sun Startup Essentials is helping out), via the highly scientific method of getting the crowd to physically line-up behind the startup they liked the most. If I say it was a little like a 1980s kids British kids TV show called Runaround, you’ll know what I mean (see the last video). Meanwhile, the videos…
TechCrunch @ FOWA pitch – Part1
TechCrunch @ FOWA pitch – Part2
TechCrunch Pitch FOWA 2008 from Paul Kane on Vimeo.
hi
Thanks for the pitch thing – good idea.
Im with Trust Profile (we pitched – public beta live in 2 weeks).
Hope you can find the audio!
Good idea behind Trust Profile. How do you plan to monetize? Do you have an exit strategy?
the audio of the beginning of the TC Pitch, is coming
luckily I recorded some of it too..
Hi Mike,
I pitched MessageBunker. We are invite-only beta at the moment but would love to open up invitations to TechCrunch UK readers.
The pitch was great fun. Maybe an idea that could be expanded upon? It led to to some great discussions with like-minded people.
Why not use Gmail?
MessageBunker never, ever deletes your email and creates a ‘Time Machine’-style backup service for any accessible email account (Exchange/Gmail/IMAP/POP3). It provides disaster recovery and regulatory compliance for small businesses as well as an extra copy of every email for users who don’t necessarily want to share their emails with Google or do use Gmail and would like the security of a second copy of the data.
We were partially inspired by this: http://boingboing.net/2008/08/05/guy-gets-locked-out.html
I sadly remember runaround lol….and glad that Glenn won, wait to see the blog postings later, or anyone who know Startup Essentials will know why …
Was a great event, i presented http://www.moneyio.co.uk a tool to show you your incomings and outgoings broken down in a friendly way.
James
Lovely! Do you have an option of using some Government provided Web Service for the calculations or you have to modify your algorithm on the run (in case that the State changes taxation often…)?
roflol. I should have been watching Twitter ;D
by the way:
twitter.com/nickdonnelly
twitter.com/trustprofile
thanks…
My, my, that was boring!
Just signed up for a trial of MessageBunker, great idea and can’t wait to start using it. Now I use Carbonite but it uses a lot of bandwidth on the data modem.