I was invited to pitch at PlugAndPlay Expo on Tuesday - an event where 48 start ups gave two minute elevator pitches to a room full of entrepreneurs, press, and investors. As luck would have it, I pitched 47th - meaning I was able to lock in and enjoy everybody else's pitches.
Here are the ones that stood out:
ProjectPlayList - This is another one of those "biggest companies you've never heard of" stories. While us Silicon Valley geeks show off our Last.FM, Pandora, and Imeem widgets, the "rest" of the Internet is using Project Playlist's (soon to be just Playlist) music widgets. I first noticed these guys when RateItAll users, who are not overly web savvy, began embedding them into their profiles. PP claims 25M users, and announced a partnership with Yahoo.
Caachi - Distribution for independent film makers. Cutting out the studios.
TeamRankings - One of the best pitches of the day - they aim to be the Bloomberg of Sports Betting, providing information and tools for gamblers to make wise picks. Solid team with revenue already.
TipJoy - Micropayment company that attempts to decouple the action of promising payment with actually giving the money. Tries to enable spontaneous tipping, with billing later.
SuperCoolSchool - Ning for online classrooms. Build your own online learning environment.
Muvee - Turns home video into music videos algorithmically.
Phonetag - Voicemail to text / email conversion.
AllBallers.com - Originally a social network for hoops players, have built a cool platform that allows any site to extend to any social network.
RateItAll - "A distributed Yelp for everything." Awesome presentation and I hear the guy writes a cool blog too.
