5 Elevator Pitches: What Do You Think Of Them?

For elevator pitches, there's a lot of verbiage. Here's the Cliffs Notes...<p><i>transpondr</i> generates popularity stats for your podcast<p><i>logobid</i> lets graphic designers bid to work for you<p><i>publicitr</i> pushe content to websites, and tracks the results<p><i>siphs</i> is a button to submit to digg/reddit/etc simultaneously<p><i>zambino</i> connects advertisers to online video producers<p>None of them sound earth-shattering. I'm not saying they're bad: some of them could do OK if they get the business side right. Zambino seems the most interesting of the lot, siphs sounds really slight.<p>And they could all do with streamlining their pitches.

More interesting yet, how about some of the startup founders on this site make one of these and post them here? For both yourselves and for fun.

Arpan from Siphs here. Thanks for the feedback so far, definitely appreciated! Looks like the elevator pitch is too wordy so we will work on clarifying. That said, the Siphs button does both (lets users either post to a social media site or send the web page to a friend via email). Regarding monetization, it's a subscription based model. Before you think, no way, that will never work, let me highlight that we've already signed up paying customers. Any experiences with scaling from here would be great! Thanks and kudos to Steve from howtosplitanatom for putting this together.

Here's another format I've seen suggested by a VC firm:<p>&#60;XYZ corp&#62; provides &#60;category&#62; solutions to &#60;target-customer&#62; for &#60;purpose&#62;, which allows them to &#60;benefit&#62; by leveraging &#60;uniqueness&#62; technology.<p>this is the example they gave:<p>Akimbi Systems provides R&#38;D tools to ISVs and enterprises for automated provisioning of test configurations, which allows customers to deliver higher quality software faster by leveraging the company's automation platform.

These are a part of a program that HTSAA is running to help new startups learn some of the nitty, gritty details of starting a business. These 5 startups have volunteered to act as case studies. What I am really looking for are your thoughts, as entrepreneurs, on their pitches.

Love the concept. Over time can amass a nice archive.<p>Perhaps if a comment box were under each startup pitch?<p>I like danohuiginn's comment-- can each be distilled to a one sentence pitch? Sometimes an elevator ride is only 1 stop :)

I think the whole "dropping the vowel" thing is getting a little annoying with all these web startups. Transpondr? Publicitr? Come on...

Interesting, very interesting.