Ask HN: Review our elevator pitch (Stormpulse)
This is based on the Marc Andreessen pitch dissected here: http://venturehacks.com/articles/elevator-pitch ---- Briefly, Stormpulse is intuitive weather display. We tame complex weather data and visualize it in context. Other weather sites begin with maps and add weather data. We craft weather-centered presentations that foster understanding. And we're piloting the world's first human-consensus forecasting system. Check us out at: http://stormpulse.com. We're building Stormpulse to reduce the costs of severe weather, which effects millions worldwide. Our weather maps have regularly appeared on CNN and are displayed on 750+ websites, from media sites such as USA Today and ThomsonReuters to intranets at places like Boeing and the Mayo Clinic. Since August 2008, our site has been visited over 18 million times, with over 60% of those visits coming direct. Hundreds of thousands of those visit
Why it failed
This is based on the Marc Andreessen pitch dissected here: http://venturehacks.com/articles/elevator-pitch ---- Briefly, Stormpulse is intuitive weather display. We tame complex weather data and visualize it in context. Other weather sites begin with maps and add weather data. We
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- wensing
- Ended
- 2009
- Source
- hackernews