Top Pitch SOTM10
Ruben, one of the Nestoria team, attended State of the Map 2010 in Girona last week, and while he was there he was able to give the award for the Best Elevator Pitch which Nestoria sponsored. Before the pitch-off started there was a panel discussion, chaired by Steve Feldman about 'Business models in turbulent times', featuring the thoughts of Christian O. Petersen and Roger Muller (CloudMade), Randy Meech (AOL Local), Robert Soden (Development seed) and Matthew Quinlan (Bing Maps).
The speakers then put on their judges hats to hear the 60 second pitches from the five pitching candidates: Raphael Volz with Nogago, Jaak Laineste with Nutiteq, Jonathan Harley with Spiffymap, Felix Lamouroux with Offmaps and Frederic Ramm with Geofabrik. Check out all the links for more about the products they were pitching, but pay closest attention to Geofabrik, which is what the winning pitch was about. Basically the pitch was “pay me money to save a lot of time”. Check out Ruben's update on the UK blog if you're interested in getting a more thorough picture of what he learned in Girona.
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by Kat Parr Mackintosh
