The Pitch Practice Podcast

Crypto may have seen some serious roller coaster action in 2017-2018, but that only demonstrates it's popularity and volume. More and more people everyday want to buy, sell, and trade in crypto currency, but it's too difficult for the average individual investor to do so.

When you're giving a speech or presentation, you hear applause or cheers if it's that kind of speech. But, after the presentation, can you remember at exactly what point the applause came? What if the audience had questions at certain points in the presentation, but couldn't or wouldn't ask them?

If you're listening to a presentation, is it appropriate to scream out "Heck yeah!" when you like a part of the presentation? Maybe, but usually not. What if you have a question, but are too shy to ask or the mic doesn't get to you in time or you simply run out of time?

Speakers crave feedback on their performances, and we've all really wanted to ask *THAT* question to the presenter. Vaudience puts the power of real time, in context feedback in a simple mobile app anyone can use.

One of the biggest issues for non-technical (e.g., people who don't write code) in building their tech startup is getting the product to market. From MVP to beta to v1 is a very long road if you don't write code (see what we did there?).

Theft, shrinkage, shoplifting...all well known issues in retail. But the scam of returning something you didn't purchase is not quite as well known. Turns out, it's a $16 BILLION annual problem for the retail industry.

Which is worse: a rotten first date or a sales follow up email on a day ending in "y"?  Sales people are sales people. You can't expect them to be brilliant designers and marketers, too!

Big brands have a hard time finding good marketing agencies. Good marketing agencies always need help landing the right clients. Who's gonna stand in the middle? 

How much money you got? Where do you wanna go? What do you want to do? Maybe we can go on a last-minute adventure on a budget. Will Vanago's pitch convince you?

When your toilet explodes or your hot water heater dies or your roof leaks, you can't wait to schedule a service provider. Jonny On It agrees, so they've created a service that will let you get a professional service provider to your home on demand, when you need it.

This is the founder's 30-second pitch from a recent session of Pitch Practice.

Her boss made a new hire for a position that required the employee to be bilingual. But the new hire wasn't bilingual, like AT ALL! It's expensive to hire the right employees who just speak one language, so finding the right person for a bilingual position is all that much harder.

Having seen and experienced this issue first hand, today's entrepreneur has set out on an adventure to solve the problem with technology.

Have you had success hiring bilingual employees? If you yourself are not bilingual, how did you verify the applicant's qualifications?

If you're on the buying side, you want to make sure the seller doesn't sell that amazing find before you get there. Or if you're on the selling side, you want to make sure the buyer actually shows up after you've told 8 people "sorry it's sold."

In the big world of real estate and cars and such, we call this "escrow". A trusted 3rd party holds *some* of the purchase price, so both parties feel safe and confident to continue the transaction.

In the Craigslist, OfferUp, Facebook, garage sale world, we call it Lockbox Local. It's a simple app that lets buyers make a deposit and hold their item and sellers get a deposit so they know it's sold.

Listen to see how the pitch for Lockbox Local sounds. Would you use it after hearing this pitch?