We recently partnered with Geekwire to help us find the best one sentence pitch in Seattle. In just three short days we received over 30 pitches with nearly 200 comments, and after much deliberation, have finally selected a winner.
Congratulations to HotelPerHour.com, a platform aimed at filling empty hotel rooms with weary businessmen and travelers, needing to freshen up and rest a while.
Here is their winning pitch:
“My company, HotelPerHour.com, is creating an hourly-rate hotels booking service that allows people (e.g. travelers, businessmen) to book hotels to rest and unwind for few hours after long-haul flight, business or shopping trip, without paying the full cost for a hotel.”
Seattle Angel investor Rudy Gadre noted, “This does create liquidity that might be of interest to hotels, who have a wasting asset in unoccupied rooms...The question is whether you can deliver sufficient increased business to hotels to make it worth their while, which is the typical marketplace chicken-and-egg problem.”
Their winning pitch earned them full tuition to the upcoming Seattle Founder Institute as well as an invitation to attend the upcoming GeekWire Startup Awards on May 9th. We’re excited to have them join us in Seattle and wish them the best of luck as they continue to build their platform.
The Helpful Husband landed in a cool second place, and PoopApp.com gets a shout-out and honorable mention from the staff at FI HQ. Thanks for making us giggle.
To learn more about HotelPerHour.com and the contest, check out the full story on their winning pitch here.
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