ThoughtFarmer - TechCrunch Elevator Pitches

ThoughtFarmer

Pitch Posted: June 19, 2008
Rating: 1.80
Votes: 90 50

Comments

Z-Portal.uni.cc 6/19/08 6:36PM

Awesome, and funny! But, why not just use Ning? Anyway, though, I vote up.

lloyd 6/20/08 6:44AM

not original

Chris McGrath 6/20/08 9:10AM

I'm the guy in the video. I realized I didn't touch on how we make money. We charge around $100/user, depending on install size. Most deals are between $10K and $200K. We're bootstrapped and profitable.

Sam 6/20/08 10:53AM

Awesome product. voted up

jason 6/20/08 11:29AM

I like it, enterprise specific design. voted up

Steve23 6/20/08 3:4PM

Informative. To the point. voted up.

wow 6/20/08 7:56PM

sounds just like sharepoint, versionate, etc

failed_artist 6/22/08 1:12AM

has anyone actually got investment from one of these pitches?

steph 6/23/08 4:0PM

nice granite you've got there

Sharninder 6/24/08 10:50PM

Sounds like a wiki retrofitted with a digg like voting system !

GoodTechStaff 6/25/08 8:22PM

I'd have a serious due diligence review about the stated revenue model above and I'm sure that the parent consulting company is in the revenue/bootstrap model. I'm sure this company will come up with something.

peter s 6/27/08 2:20PM

It doesn't sound all that different from a million other content management tools. And please, not sooooo many buzz words.

Scott 6/27/08 2:38PM

To me, the world is moving away from services like this because most companies now have to collaborate and share data with supplier, distributors, designers, etc. Communicating inside your walls only is old technology - being able to securely communicate and collaborate with anyone, anywhere, is where it's at.

Chris McGrath 6/27/08 3:15PM

Great comments! Scott's point about external collaboration is valid, and some of our clients provide external partners with limited access to their ThoughtFarmer installs. However, most companies have not mastered effective internal collaboration -- not by a long shot. The market for replacing old-school enterprise intranets with new, democratic, collaborative platforms will be massive for many years to come.

Mark Frost 6/28/08 1:25PM

This is so surreal. You're like the young guy, Ryan on The Office who comes in and tries to make the Dunder-Mifflin website "social". How many companies are gonna go "BLOGS, FORUMS, AND A CUSTOMIZABLE HOMEPAGE FOR OUR EMPLOYEES! NO FREAKIN' WAY!". Not just that, but how many employees are going to want or need a blog or "social features"? I wish you luck, but I just don't see companies NEEDING this.

Christopher 6/28/08 1:26PM

Uh, "100 to 5,000 employees" is quite a big spread there. And, "Web 2.0" doesn't mean much anymore. Lastly, how is this different from SharePoint?

Chris McGrath 6/28/08 3:29PM

@Christopher - 100 to 5000 is small- & medium-sized business. Majority of our customers fall in that range. How different than SharePoint? It's simpler and friendlier. SharePoint requires months of customization and usually turns into a glorified file share. ThoughtFarmer looks beautiful and works beautifully right out of the box. We've mopped up after many failed SharePoint implementations.

Chris McGrath 6/28/08 3:37PM

@Mark Frost 1) Blogs describe a way of writing -- time-based, as-it-happens. Don't think of it as an employee pulpit. They're used internally for meeting notes, project collaboration, new product ideas, etc. 2) "Social" in our world means putting content in its social context. Content is more meaningful when we can easily find out who the author is, how they fit into the company and what else they've written.