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Half Baked at Etech

One of the more fun sessions at ETech was Half-Baked – the so-called comedy improvisation VC pitching exercise. The audience shout out up to 25 words, the teams end up choosing 2 of those words to make a company name, and you have a short time (on the order of 10-15 minutes), to put together a logo, tagline, business plan and revenue streams…

Ewan Spence

…never one to turn down an opportunity to be a showman, getting up on stage and being rather loud, I was always going to volunteer to be in one of the teams. It didn’t take Tara and the rest of the team to proclaim that it was all down to the presentation, and thus leaving me free to do the most un V.C. Pitch Presentation possible. Quick point of survival – never tell me that I should just ‘go for it’ in a presentation… because I will.

Kamikaze Kadavaer

So the team ended up with Kamikaze Kadaver, a subscription based serivce (1% of your gross annual income, offset by a 1% tax break so it costs you relativly nothing), which allowed you access to an RPG where you have to die in interesting ways, post these online, where they are voted on Digg like – and every month a live ’stadium roadshow’ of death with the most popular requests killed live on pay per view.

Now throw this idea into the mix of a wildblooded Scotsman, in his kilt, being handed a microphone, and who’s just had a quiet word with the sound board (’would you mind awfully pressing play on this MP3 player I’ve just hooked into channel 27′). Which meant as I started the lights dim, the rather loud strains of Iron Maiden’s Phantom of the Opera, me barreling down the central aisle for a barnstorming entry, and jsut generally firing up the audience

Did we win? Nope, Kevin Marks and Cal Hendersons ‘Corpse Twitter (conversations with the dead)’ won out. But who needs the VC cash when you have popular acclaim?

April 6, 2007; Daily Links;

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One Response to “Half Baked at Etech”

  1. Janne Jalkanen on April 7th, 2007 9:35

    Heh. Sounds like the only program at ETech I regret to having missed ;-)

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