Yesterday, I had a pitch at the Mediapark Jaarcongres. About 600 people in front of me and on my left, five investors/critics that would ask me some hard questions after my 4 minutes pitch.

My day started at 06.00 meaning I had a great 4 hours of sleep, due to several reason. We had a breakfast session with one of the investors (great opportunity to ask questions) and the congress started around 10.00. I met some people I knew from my former job.
Around 14.00 it was my turn… Having explained Scoutle to mostly about 3 persons at the same time, I was pretty happy with the fact a huge light was blinding my eyes a bit. I could hardly look to crowd and it did actually made me less nervous, although it must still have been clear this wasn’t a daily routine.

The investors couldn’t really say anything since I could not present them a complete business model yet. Fortunately, I had already announced this in my presentation. Although I do have some ideas I still need to research them before I bring them out in the open. But they liked the idea, I received some compliments on being there on my own and having achieved what Scoutle has become already and are curious and interested to know how Scoutle will develop. One of them said my ambition of having 100.000 users next year was a bit low. To have that number go up, I would really need a bigger team and some investments of course but it is good to know an investor would like to hear more. They also stated that it is a bit hard to understand how it works and the website is not able to answer to this in a short period of time. I know this, I do need to work on it. I can’t just say “If you try it, you will understand it.” even though Scoutle is free to use.

But, they concluded with enthusiasm and one said to contact me later on and kept his promise.

After the presentation, people actually came to me and offered me help, free hosting and partnerships and such but also some just came to compliment me or talk about business models and their thoughts. Funny part was also I could see that during the questioning, new users registered! There were a lot of laptops with Internet in the room.

Hopefully, more press will write something about Scoutle in the near future. I hope printed press, like newspapers and magazines would. This will bring Scoutle over to those that may not read the digital versions.

Now, one day later, I have also received emails from other blog-related websites that want me to come over and see if partnerships can be arranged. All that, from just 4 minutes and a presentation.