the jury was seemingly disappointed for the quality of the presentations and lack of international ambition. They awarded three bronze medals to mahshelf, youdidit, and hammerkit.
haha, nice ;) in 6 minutes with a freeform presentation format, its hard to expect anything else really. TechCrunch50 lessons could tech something here, I'm sure ;)
You can argue if 3 bronzes was the right way to do the awards, or if it would have been better to do it as 3 companies receiving a special mention or something. I watched all the presentations and I agree with the jury that there really wasn't a clear winner. Some good pitches, but serious problems with q&a and with stories in general. I think we should do a startup pitching camp before Slush if we can. I know we can do better!
@gravitas: the pitch was refreshingly energetic but maybe just slightly too bold. Would've been good to elaborate on the customers/partners/revenue earlier in the beginning.
Rather interesting way to award prizes, but oh well.
@peter - A startup pitch camp would be a good thing, but I would keep that as an informal event with startups pitching for startups. That would be a semi-novel approach to a pitch camp. For professional pitch training there are eg TeVe's PitchCamp's available so at least personally I'd be more interested in doing this "for the startups by the startups".
@peter agree with you on the startup pitching camp and want to be involved with that. The sad fact is that a lot of Finnish pitches are pretty awful (disclaimer: haven't seen MindTrek ones). Our's is far from brilliant as well and I think we could all benefit from each other. Practise makes (almost) perfect
@gravitas the solid set of contracts or the CEO's track record got nearly any room in the presentation. Toni was going for emotions but forgot to emphasize the facts enough. The final hit was the question 'how do you kill amazon.com?'
that question sounds like "how does facebook kill myspace?" or "how does youtube kill other video hosting services?". Did youtube say: we had evil marketing plan? The fact is that you have to satisfy the investors without revealing the confidential tactics.
let's do an informal pitching camp, I'm not too concerned by the "professional" events/trainers, we can get more out of an event that we do for our own requirements
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giev info plz, who won?
1 year, 2 months ago by Gravitas
the jury was seemingly disappointed for the quality of the presentations and lack of international ambition. They awarded three bronze medals to mahshelf, youdidit, and hammerkit.
1 year, 2 months ago by spushnik
...um. What is this "three bronze medals" crap? Sounds like punishment/public humiliation...or is it meant to be like a michelin star rating?
1 year, 2 months ago by spongefile
haha, nice ;) in 6 minutes with a freeform presentation format, its hard to expect anything else really. TechCrunch50 lessons could tech something here, I'm sure ;)
1 year, 2 months ago by Gravitas
Mahshelf, hammerkit and one did it :)
1 year, 2 months ago by Kaitsu
@Kaitsu lol
1 year, 2 months ago by spongefile
In a way, it's very Finnish. "You are all equally mediocre." :D
1 year, 2 months ago by spongefile
anybody who was watching Run's pitch? give your honest opinion how did Toni do?
1 year, 2 months ago by Gravitas
I think they didn't want to award anyone. Would have been too big a disappointment to end the day with "you all suck. Go home." ;)
@Gravitas Run's pitch was energetic.. bordering on mad. The judges were not amused.
1 year, 2 months ago by spushnik
three bronzes FAIL
1 year, 2 months ago by samin
You can argue if 3 bronzes was the right way to do the awards, or if it would have been better to do it as 3 companies receiving a special mention or something. I watched all the presentations and I agree with the jury that there really wasn't a clear winner. Some good pitches, but serious problems with q&a and with stories in general. I think we should do a startup pitching camp before Slush if we can. I know we can do better!
1 year, 2 months ago by peter
@gravitas: the pitch was refreshingly energetic but maybe just slightly too bold. Would've been good to elaborate on the customers/partners/revenue earlier in the beginning.
1 year, 2 months ago by mchael
Rather interesting way to award prizes, but oh well.
@peter - A startup pitch camp would be a good thing, but I would keep that as an informal event with startups pitching for startups. That would be a semi-novel approach to a pitch camp. For professional pitch training there are eg TeVe's PitchCamp's available so at least personally I'd be more interested in doing this "for the startups by the startups".
1 year, 2 months ago by toivotuo
@peter agree with you on the startup pitching camp and want to be involved with that. The sad fact is that a lot of Finnish pitches are pretty awful (disclaimer: haven't seen MindTrek ones). Our's is far from brilliant as well and I think we could all benefit from each other. Practise makes (almost) perfect
1 year, 2 months ago by Setok
@peter if you do decide to have a test audience after all, I'd be happy to come listen (schedules allowing of course)
1 year, 2 months ago by Tuija
@gravitas the solid set of contracts or the CEO's track record got nearly any room in the presentation. Toni was going for emotions but forgot to emphasize the facts enough. The final hit was the question 'how do you kill amazon.com?'
1 year, 2 months ago by villevesterinen
that question sounds like "how does facebook kill myspace?" or "how does youtube kill other video hosting services?". Did youtube say: we had evil marketing plan? The fact is that you have to satisfy the investors without revealing the confidential tactics.
1 year, 2 months ago by Jampy
let's do an informal pitching camp, I'm not too concerned by the "professional" events/trainers, we can get more out of an event that we do for our own requirements
1 year, 2 months ago by peter