Jackson Fish Market - TechCrunch Elevator Pitches

Jackson Fish Market

Pitch Posted: June 2, 2008
Rating: 1.08
Votes: 26 24

Information provided by CrunchBase

Comments

mike 6/4/08 4:30PM #

I think I get it. I like it. But you have to get your head around next-gen advertising, product placement, etc. Like some of these guys are sponsoring so-called viral videos, they'd sponsor one of these sites(?) as a channel to reach people who no longer watch TV ads.

Chad 6/4/08 6:56PM #

Too much use of the hands for the guy which is distracting

Adam 6/4/08 7:18PM #

I think y'all are on to something great. This is exactly what Seth Godin calls "Permission Marketing"

ryan 6/4/08 11:51PM #

love the idea. I like it because you are really looking into the future!

jazz hands 6/20/08 1:24AM #

great idea, but I can't stand the jazz hands dude and how he just stares at the woman like he is fantasizing about her in the beginning. got a very weird feeling about him, use different pitch guy or just her next time

Norman 6/26/08 5:10PM #

I had to read the copy before I understood that "They're Beautiful" was a brand name and not a description in a grammatically incorrect sentence. My brain was too involved in parsing that to hear her next point, but it had something to do with death. I'm with George Carlin on this point, don't use the word "dead" to convey something positive. Ditto the remarks about Mr. Hands. I had more to say but they limit one to 500 chars. Sigh.

Norman 6/26/08 5:16PM #

When Mr. Hands reanimated, I wished my screen had gone blank. Then I might have stood a chance of figuring out what this futuristic app-ad was. Instead, I found myself mesmerized by the hands ... how fast can they go? Hand-waving is an unconscious compensation for not being able to say what you mean, a bad sign in a 60 sec pitch. If you could just attach a piston to each hand and get him to talk about "organic customer growth" again, you could probably save a lot on your electric bill. :-)

Norman 6/26/08 5:18PM #

They say where there's a will there's a way ... or a dead person. Now for the substantive feedback: Even after reading, I'm still in the dark about how I would use this. Say I'm building a website and need a simple invitation feature, can I use Invitastic instead of coding one myself? Or does the app only make sense in the context of display advertising on other sites? Other than the above, it was a fantastic pitch!

Matt 6/27/08 3:28PM #

good idea but their executions are pretty bad... slow load times are the first problem the second is tha applications themselves are not robust. no data collection, user interaction etc.

Linda 8/22/08 8:11PM #

Two people = too much confusion...if you are making a pitch, let one person do it and stick to the time limit; practice your pitch - no uhs, ums, and don't call your product "dead" anything even if it's dead simple...so what is it you do? sell fish?

The Waver 12/30/08 3:19PM #

That was an horrible pitch and the model needs work. We at JFM have a consulting crew after being at Microsoft we think we know a lot about marketing. In fact we believe that we know more than you. Instead of listening to a customer since they are just confused anyway. We just build web apps that we think people will want to use that have branding potential and then charge people for the space. I was lost in the first 30 seconds. The girl 'Jenny' needs a LOT more practice. 1) The Problem the customer has 2) The Alternatives 3) Why you're Solution makes more cents *hand waving* P.A.S *hand wave* Bye *waving*