The Pitch:

On YouTellYou, anyone can create and publish a photo-story in minutes linking to their Flickr, Facebook or Smugmug account or uploading the photos from a their computer. The stories are presented in an online magazine, according to number of views, ranking, category, publishing date.

YouTellYou is NOT another photo hosting service: the emphasis is creating and sharing our stories via our pictures. The YouTellYou target author is someone that is willing to share information and is looking for a large audience.
YouTellYou aims are to be easy and quick for the authors, elegant and easily navigable and searchable for the readers.

The possibility are endless: travel diaries, breaking news, family events, sport events, nature photography etc.
YouTellYou offers a publishing platform to the reporter that hides in all of us.

Accomplishments to date:

Live since Jan 6, 2010

Reviewed by:

• ReadWriteWeb
• University of Missouri
• KillerStartups
• Makeuseof
• Startupmeme
• Blogs in USA, France, Holland, Germany, Brazil, Spain, Japan, Italy

Development plans:

YouTellYou needs 2 developers to make the website secure and scalable, 1 designer to make it gorgeous and 1 internet marketer to spread the word and get traction, readers and authors.

Key Challenges:

• Spread the word and make the website go viral
• Build a smartphone interface to allow people to post stories “on the go” with audio comments

Principals & Previous Experience:

Ruggero Domenichini, Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager, Italian by birth, in New Zealand since 1996 (citizen since 1999)

What they want from an investor:

~ NZD 300,000 to fund development and staff over the next year, with significant business mentoring to produce a business strategy for the next stage.

Dave’s commentary:

Ruggero Domenichini, the founder of YouTellYou seems an energetic and passionate man with plenty of real-world experience in IT and creative flair.  Like many start-up founders, he’s developed his product to the beta launch and now need to build a team to turn his product into a company, as well as cash to make it happen.

Contact details:

Ruggero Domenichini (founder)
email: rujero@youtellyou.com
mob: +64 21 683305
skype: ruggero.domenichini

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