6 Startup Pitches That Prove You Can Sell Your Idea in 25 Words or Less – Valutrics

Hubspot launched the #SummerStartup competition, a contest offering anyone $100,000 and the opportunity to quit their job and start their own business.

The marketing corporation invited the public to pitch their business ideas in 25 words or less in the comments of the Facebook announcement post.

Over three million views later, 14,000 people commented. The responses ranged from fascinating proposals to strident warnings of the dangers of sharing IP publicly.

Whether you believe sharing ideas is right or not, the insightful entrepreneurs who chose to reveal their light bulb moments with us are an inspiration.

Combing through the hundreds of Facebook comments, I picked out the top thirty and cited the authors below.

Here are 30 of the most interesting business idea pitches:

“In 25 words or less” (not everyone follows the rules… entrepreneurs?)

1. The 5-in-1 “winner”

This first one is the #1 comment on the post, probably because he managed to include five business ideas in less than 25 words. Brilliant.

“Earthquake proof office chairs
Predictive horns for cars
Twitch.tv for putting together Ikea furniture
Wearable fog machines
Bubble prediction algorithms”

— Ste Hughes

2. A traveling mobile education system

“I want to start a mobile school that visits such villages around the year, camps there for a few months we teach both children grown ups. Curriculum would include not only basic education but also vocational training, so people can work/earn their living can fight poverty. Mobile schools-workshops.” — Sagarika Paul

3. Greenhouse prisons producing chefs out of inmates

“Turning prisons into greenhouses, utilizing low-risk prisoners as groundskeepers and gardeners, simultaneously educating them to become chefs as rehabilitation into poverty-heavy cities.” — Bryce Struck

4. “Skill-Swap”

“‘Skill-Swap’ is a marketplace where people trade services with one another to help achieve their goals. ‘I’ll build your website if you do my accounting?’” — Daniel Martin

5. “Rent-A-Swag”

“‘Rent-A-Swag’” is a service where I rent out high-end clothing to teens, tweens, and everything-in-between.” — Andyers Kroppfers

6. Try a job before you take it

“A try factory… somewhere you can try different professions without degrees, in real world experiences to see if it fits your life before committing to study/expensive training etc. Not everyone is an academic but people are often overlooked for things they may be skilled at for lack of confidence in them in the industries. Also in the real world people may go through years of study to arrive at a career only to decide they hate it this could help to eliminate that.”