On Thursday I went to the Eco-Congress in Cologne to take part in our first elevator pitch. There were about 200 participants from around the German Internet World at the congress - the sessions and talks were very interesting!

During the 30min Elevator Pitch 8 Start-Ups presented their businesses. We were fortunate enough to be one of them. I had never taken part in an Elevator Pitch before. All slides were automatically timed and each Start-Up had 4 min to present (I used  9 slides, each showing 27 seconds). What I didn't know before was that Sascha Lobo was moderating the Pitch and was asking questions in between which of course made it even harded. But due to the given time frame and Sascha's questions the entire pitch was interesting to the audience.

One thing I noted that some of the presentations were too much product focused and not so much on the general problem they're solving. I'm still deciding on how our presentation was in that respect - but it's clearly something we'll be focusing on in our next one's. Surely hope, we'll be invited to the Eco-Kongress next year, it was definetly worth going.

Thanks again for the entire Eco-Team (especially Valentina) for having us and organizing the great talks! :)

The new date for the TechCrunch Meetup is here: January 15, 2009. We unfortunately had to move the original date due to a clash of schedules. But this date is now the final date so make sure to mark it in your calendar. Mike from TechCrunch UK will of course join us. :)

We have already started rechecking locations, as soon as we know where the event will be happening, we'll make sure to let you know.

If anybody of you is interested in sponsoring the event, please get in touch with Hendric (hendric at jimdo.com). And a big thanks to Cellity for helping us organizing the event.