Off pitch

Okay, campers. The good news is that the pitch is over. We had a number of very good, business-viable ideas, with an interesting mix of old tech, new tech and new business models, and the double conference room was chockablock with people who came to watch.

So, hurrah.

The bad news is that I am, once again, a “finalist”, which means I once again have to make a [expletive modifier] video.

I think my mistake was in using an attention-getting visual aid, in the form of Alex, here:

Alex was one of the similarly-clad spokesmodels that Dice.com used on billboards around the Bay Area. Dice.com was proud of Alex. So they put him as a mural across an entire wall in their headquarters, in an open office, where everyone could not help but see him.

I should have just told my story without trying to doll it up.

Oh, well—live and learn.